An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
TRIGONOMETRIES
Noun
trigonometries
plural of trigonometry
Source: Wiktionary
TRIGONOMETRY
Trig`o*nom"e*try, n.; pl. -tries. Etym: [Gr. -metry: cf. F. trigonométrie. See Trigon.]
1. That branch of mathematics which treats of the relations of the sides and angles of triangles, which the methods of deducing from certain given parts other required parts, and also of the general relations which exist between the trigonometrical functions of arcs or angles.
2. A treatise in this science. Analytical trigonometry, that branch of trigonometry which treats of the relations and properties of the trigonometrical functions.
– Plane trigonometry, and Spherical trigonometry, those branches of trigonometry in which its principles are applied to plane triangles and spherical triangles respectively.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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