Used in a Sentence

conventions

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for conventions.

Editorial note

Once again, if your verification of real names excludes a whole group's conventions, you have failed hard.

Examples16
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A practice or procedure widely observed in a group, especially to facilitate social interaction; a custom.

Meaning at a glance

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

noun

A practice or procedure widely observed in a group, especially to facilitate social interaction; a custom.

noun

A meeting or gathering.

noun

A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for conventions.

noun

A practice or procedure widely observed in a group, especially to facilitate social interaction; a custom.

noun

A meeting or gathering.

noun

A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates.

noun

A formal agreement, contract, rule, or pact.

Example sentences

1

Once again, if your verification of real names excludes a whole group's conventions, you have failed hard.

2

Apparently: > Neither French law nor European conventions recognize software as patentable (see French section below).

3

Hickey is in favor of clear multi-tasking conventions, but go code can do it many ways.

4

However for the various operating systems out there you can find detailed calling conventions for C, but seldomly for C++.

5

On the language level there are not calling conventions (how could there be, as those strongly depend on the machine architecture).

6

Go is a new language, why be held back by the old name conventions?

7

I am not a professional programmer so the source code is probably, by all conventions, a complete mess.

8

People hate Make because it doesn't define any conventions for its use.

9

Compilers are still bound by conventions and the features the HLL exposes.

10

Architectural and design decisions, coding conventions, alternate approaches they rejected, etc.

11

If you're using table per hierarchy, or denormalised conventions then it can be entirely unclear which columns are supposed to be used for each row types.

12

Most of this achieved by following conventions, that are either standard or recommended by vendor of software, and using the right tool, rather than generic solution.

Quote examples

1

Compiler support and calling conventions for split register file architectures are well understood, and using dirty bits on floating-point register file state can reduce context-switch overhead." (1) Not really.

2

From independent music "scenes", to Hello Kitty conventions, to Halo, there are plenty of ad hoc communities out there that support their members in many of the ways that matter.

3

There is a whole lot more illogic and inconsistency to be found between what is legal in something arbitrarily defined as "war" and otherwise, if one delves deep enough into the various treaties and conventions.

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* Selectively violate the "normal" calling conventions.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use conventions in a sentence?

Once again, if your verification of real names excludes a whole group's conventions, you have failed hard.

What does conventions mean?

A practice or procedure widely observed in a group, especially to facilitate social interaction; a custom.

What part of speech is conventions?

conventions is commonly used as noun.