CommonParlance
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Ordinary-language usages. Seeded from the Open English WordNet (OEWN) 2025, CC BY 4.0.
Context admission
Admitted. Context admission is separate from purpose assessments and factual verdicts.
Why maintain this knowledge?
No justification recorded. This does not mean the knowledge is unjustified; no applicable assessment has been adopted.
Particular uses
These assessments concern specific investigations, audiences, or applications. They do not replace the default justification or authorize other uses.
No particular uses recorded here.
Review or propose an assessment
Purpose authoring is optional. Propose a more specific default or a particular use only when there is something more specific to say. Each proposal includes its scope and reasoning in one market.
Purpose assessments are separate from factual reasoning and context admission. A missing or denied purpose does not change a factual verdict or prevent context creation.
Child contexts
- Science Proposed
Terms in this context
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corpuscular-radiation pressure in CommonParlance
- definition the minute pressure exerted on a surface normal to the direction of propagation of a wave
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corrade in CommonParlance
- definition wear away
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corral in CommonParlance
- definition a pen for cattle
- definition enclose in a corral
- definition arrange wagons so that they form a corral
- definition gather and secure
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corrasion in CommonParlance
- definition erosion by friction
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correct in CommonParlance
- definition free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth
- definition socially right or correct
- definition in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure
- definition correct in opinion or judgment
- definition make right or correct
- definition make reparations or amends for
- definition censure severely
- definition adjust for
- definition punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience
- definition fall in value
- definition alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard
- definition treat a defect
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correctable in CommonParlance
- definition capable of being returned to the original condition; not necessarily permanent
- definition capable of being corrected by additions
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corrected in CommonParlance
- definition having something undesirable neutralized
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correction in CommonParlance
- definition the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right
- definition a quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure
- definition something substituted for an error
- definition a rebuke for making a mistake
- definition a drop in stock market activity or stock prices following a period of increases
- definition the act of disciplining
- definition treatment of a specific defect
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correctional in CommonParlance
- definition concerned with or providing correction
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correctional institution in CommonParlance
- definition a penal institution maintained by the government
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correctional rehabilitation in CommonParlance
- definition providing penal custody or probation or parole for convicted offenders
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corrections in CommonParlance
- definition the department of local government that is responsible for managing the treatment of convicted offenders
- definition the social control of offenders through a system of imprisonment and rehabilitation and probation and parole
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correctitude in CommonParlance
- definition correct or appropriate behavior
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corrective in CommonParlance
- definition designed to promote discipline
- definition tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition
- definition a device for treating injury or disease
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correctly in CommonParlance
- definition in an accurate manner
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correctness in CommonParlance
- definition conformity to fact or truth
- definition the quality of conformity to social expectations
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correlate in CommonParlance
- definition mutually related
- definition either of two or more related or complementary variables
- definition to bear a reciprocal or mutual relation
- definition bring into a mutual, complementary, or reciprocal relation
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correlated in CommonParlance
- definition mutually related
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correlation in CommonParlance
- definition a reciprocal relation between two or more things
- definition a statistic representing how closely two variables co-vary; it can vary from -1 (perfect negative correlation) through 0 (no correlation) to +1 (perfect positive correlation)
- definition a statistical relation between two or more variables such that systematic changes in the value of one variable are accompanied by systematic changes in the other
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correlation coefficient in CommonParlance
- definition a statistic representing how closely two variables co-vary; it can vary from -1 (perfect negative correlation) through 0 (no correlation) to +1 (perfect positive correlation)
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correlation matrix in CommonParlance
- definition a matrix giving the correlations between all pairs of data sets
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correlation table in CommonParlance
- definition a two-way tabulation of the relations between correlates; row headings are the scores on one variable and column headings are the scores on the second variables and a cell shows how many times the score on that row was associated with the score in that column
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correlational in CommonParlance
- definition relating to or employing correlation
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correlational analysis in CommonParlance
- definition the use of statistical correlation to evaluate the strength of the relations between variables
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correlational statistics in CommonParlance
- definition a statistical relation between two or more variables such that systematic changes in the value of one variable are accompanied by systematic changes in the other