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.
UNIAXIAL
Etymology
Adjective
uniaxial (not comparable)
Having a single axis; monoaxial
(botany) Having a single stem, with no branches, that terminates in a flower
Anagrams
• auxilian
Source: Wiktionary
U`ni*ax"i*al, a. Etym: [Uni + axial.]
1. (Crystallog.)
Definition: Having but one optic axis, or line of no double refraction.
Note: In uniaxial crystals, the optic axis has the direction of the vertical crystallographic axis. All tetragonal and hexagonal crystals are uniaxial.
2. (Biol.)
Definition: Having only one axis; developing along a single line or plane;
– opposed to multiaxial.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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