convention

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

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Quick take

a large formal assembly; "political convention"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of convention gathered in one view.

noun

a large formal assembly; "political convention"

noun

something regarded as a normative example; "the convention of not naming the main character"; "violence is the rule not the exception"; "his formula for impressing visitors"

noun

(diplomacy) an international agreement

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for convention.

noun

a large formal assembly; "political convention"

noun

something regarded as a normative example; "the convention of not naming the main character"; "violence is the rule not the exception"; "his formula for impressing visitors"

See also: normal, pattern, rule, formula

noun

(diplomacy) an international agreement

noun

orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional

noun

the act of convening

Example sentences

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.