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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.

Propose an assessment

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.

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    • definition a straight line that is the limiting value of a curve; can be considered as tangent at infinity
  • asymptotic in CommonParlance
    • definition relating to or of the nature of an asymptote
  • asymptotically in CommonParlance
  • asynchronism in CommonParlance
    • definition the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times
  • asynchronous in CommonParlance
    • definition (digital communication) pertaining to a transmission technique that does not require a common clock between the communicating devices; timing signals are derived from special characters in the data stream itself
    • definition not synchronous; not occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase
  • asynchronous motor in CommonParlance
    • definition An induction or asynchronous motor is an AC electric motor in which the electric current in the rotor needed to produce torque is obtained by electromagnetic induction from the magnetic field of the stator winding.
  • asynchronous nasalization in CommonParlance
    • definition nasalization that consists of an oral vowel followed by a nasal semivowel.
  • asynchronous operation in CommonParlance
    • definition operations that occur without a regular or predictable time relation to other events
  • asynchronous transfer mode in CommonParlance
    • definition a means of digital communications that is capable of very high speeds; suitable for transmission of images or voice or video as well as data
  • asynchrony in CommonParlance
    • definition the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times
  • asynclitism in CommonParlance
    • definition the presentation during labor of the head of the fetus at an abnormal angle
  • asyndetic in CommonParlance
  • asyndeton in CommonParlance
    • definition the omission of conjunctions where they would normally be used
  • asynergia in CommonParlance
    • definition absence of coordination of organs or body parts that usually work together harmoniously
  • asynergic in CommonParlance
    • definition of or relating to the state of asynergy; lacking synergy
  • asynergy in CommonParlance
    • definition absence of coordination of organs or body parts that usually work together harmoniously
  • asystole in CommonParlance
    • definition absence of systole; failure of the ventricles of the heart to contract (usually caused by ventricular fibrillation) with consequent absence of the heart beat leading to oxygen lack and eventually to death
  • at in CommonParlance
  • at a loss in CommonParlance
  • at a low price in CommonParlance
    • definition for a relatively small amount of money
  • at a lower place in CommonParlance
  • at a time in CommonParlance
  • at all in CommonParlance
    • definition in the slightest degree or in any respect
  • at all costs in CommonParlance
  • at an equal rate in CommonParlance