'conventional' značenje u engleski leksikon

ETYM Latin conventionalis: cf. French conventionnel.
1. Conforming with accepted standards; SYN. established.
2. Following accepted customs and proprieties.
3. In accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past.
4. Unimaginative and conformist.
5. (Fine arts) Represented in simplified or symbolic form; SYN. formal, schematic.
6. (Of power and warfare and weaponry) Not nuclear.

Množina: conventional currents

Direction in which an electric current is considered to flow in a circuit. By convention, the direction is that in which positive-charge carriers would flow—from the positive terminal of a cell to its negative terminal. In circuit diagrams, the arrows shown on symbols for components such as diodes and transistors point in the direction of conventional current flow.

Množina: conventional forces in Europes

(CFE) Treaty signed by NATO and Warsaw Pact representatives Nov 1990, reducing the number of tanks, missiles, aircraft, and other forms of non-nuclear military hardware held by member states.
Talks between government representatives had begun in Vienna, Austria, March 1989 with the aim of reducing the “conventional”—that is, non-nuclear—forces (US, Soviet, French, British, and German) in Europe. The dissolution of the Warsaw Pact 1991 left doubts over the verification of the treaty, but at the July 1992 Helsinki summit of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe a revised version of the 1990 treaty was signed by 29 states (all members of NATO or former Soviet republics). Armenia and Belarus had still to ratify the treaty.

Množina: conventional memories

The amount of RAM addressable by an IBM PC or compatible machine operating in real mode. This is typically 640 kilobytes (KB). Without the use of special techniques, conventional memory is the only kind of RAM accessible to MS-DOS programs. See also protected mode, real mode. Compare expanded memory, extended memory.

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Množina: conventional wisdoms

The generally accepted belief, opinion, judgment, or prediction about a particular matter

Alternate (chiefly British) spelling of conventionalize.

Množina: conventionalisms

The view that a priori truths, logical axioms, or scientific laws have no absolute validity but are disguised conventions representing one of a number of possible alternatives. The French philosopher and mathematician Jules Henri Poincaré introduced this position into the philosophy of science.

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Množina: conventionalities

1. Conformity with conventional thought and behavior.
2. Orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional; SYN. convention, conventionalism.
3. Unoriginality as a result of being too conventional.

Množina: conventionalizations

(Alternate spelling: conventionalise).
To make conventional or adapt to conventions; SYN. conventionalise.

Using artistic forms and conventions to create effects; not natural or spontaneous; SYN. stylized, stylised.