Convention used in a sentence

Convention in a sentence as a noun

The PSF did not kick us out, they pulled us from the main convention and got our side of the story.

I think it's all just a dumb made up social convention that we're better off without.

So far so good--at least this comports with vacuum tube conventions, which will be familiar to all readers of Hacker News.

Researchers speak of anodal and cathodal stimulation, and the convention is that + is anodal and - is cathodal.

What would be great if Scala gave you a way to explicitly declare certain functions as infix, and everything else uses the java-style calling convention.

This refers to an ancient convention in electronics, in which current was assumed to flow from the anode to the cathode, even though electrons flow from the cathode to the anode.