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
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Terms in this context
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CIA in CommonParlance
- definition an independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest; headed by the Director of Central Intelligence under the supervision of the President and National Security Council
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CID in CommonParlance
- definition the United States Army's principal law enforcement agency responsible for the conduct of criminal investigations for all levels of the Army anywhere in the world
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CIM in CommonParlance
- definition the United Kingdom's central unit for the tasking and coordination and funding of intelligence and security agencies
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CIO in CommonParlance
- definition a federation of North American industrial unions that merged with the American Federation of Labor in 1955
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CIS in CommonParlance
- definition an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991
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CISC in CommonParlance
- definition an agency of the Canadian government that unifies the intelligence units of Canadian law enforcement agencies
- definition (computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the CPU chip
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CJD in CommonParlance
- definition rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus; characterized by progressive dementia and gradual loss of muscle control
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CLI in CommonParlance
- definition a user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon
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CMB in CommonParlance
- definition (cosmology) the cooled remnant of the hot big bang that fills the entire universe and can be observed today with an average temperature of about 2.725 kelvin
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CMBR in CommonParlance
- definition (cosmology) the cooled remnant of the hot big bang that fills the entire universe and can be observed today with an average temperature of about 2.725 kelvin
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CMV in CommonParlance
- definition any of a group of herpes viruses that enlarge epithelial cells and can cause birth defects; can affect humans with impaired immunological systems
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CN gas in CommonParlance
- definition a tear gas that is weaker than CS gas but lasts longer
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CNS in CommonParlance
- definition the portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord
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CO in CommonParlance
- definition an odorless very poisonous gas that is a product of incomplete combustion of carbon
- definition one who refuses to serve in the armed forces on grounds of conscience
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CO2 in CommonParlance
- definition a heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances; absorbed from the air by plants in photosynthesis
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COBOL in CommonParlance
- definition common business-oriented language
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COD in CommonParlance
- definition collecting the charges upon delivery
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COMINT in CommonParlance
- definition technical and intelligence information derived from foreign communications by other than the intended recipients
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CORE in CommonParlance
- definition an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality
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COVID-19 in CommonParlance
- definition a viral disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 that caused a global pandemic in 2020
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CPA in CommonParlance
- definition an accountant who has passed certain examinations and met all other statutory and licensing requirements of a United States state to be certified by that state
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CPI in CommonParlance
- definition an index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer
- definition a self-report personality inventory originally derived from the MMPI; consists of several hundred yes-no questions and yields scores on a number of scales including dominance and self acceptance and self control and socialization and achievement etc.
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CPR in CommonParlance
- definition an emergency procedure consisting of external cardiac massage and artificial respiration; the first treatment for a person who has collapsed and has no pulse and has stopped breathing; attempts to restore circulation of the blood and prevent death or brain damage due to lack of oxygen
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CPU in CommonParlance
- definition (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing
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CPU board in CommonParlance
- definition the main circuit board for a computer