It has a sweet, aromatic taste that resembles the taste of black licorice. It is commonly used in alcohols and liqueurs, such as anisette and ouzo. Anise is also used in dairy products, gelatins, meats, candies, and breath fresheners. In manufacturing, anise is often used as a fragrance in soap, creams, perfumes, and sachets.
datum. ( 1 plural: data) A measurement of something on a scale understood by both the recorder (a person or device) and the reader (another person or device). The scale is arbitrarily defined, such as from 1 to 10 by ones, 1 to 100 by 0.1, or simply true or false, on or off, yes, no, or maybe, etc.
Meades Ranch Triangulation Station, fundamental station for the North American Datum of 1927. The North American Datum (NAD) is the datum now used to define the geodetic network in North America. A datum is a formal description of the shape of the earth along with an anchor point for the coordinate system.he North American Datum of 1983 is based on a newer defined spheroid (GRS 80); it is an Earth-centered (or  geocentric ) datum having no initial point or initial direction.