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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centiliter in CommonParlance
- definition a metric unit of volume equal to one hundredth of a liter
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centilitre in CommonParlance
- definition a metric unit of volume equal to one hundredth of a liter
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centime in CommonParlance
- definition a fractional monetary unit of several countries: France and Algeria and Belgium and Burkina Faso and Burundi and Cameroon and Chad and the Congo and Gabon and Haiti and the Ivory Coast and Luxembourg and Mali and Morocco and Niger and Rwanda and Senegal and Switzerland and Togo
- definition a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit
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centimeter in CommonParlance
- definition a metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter
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centimetre in CommonParlance
- definition a metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter
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centimo in CommonParlance
- definition a fractional monetary unit of Venezuela and Costa Rica and Equatorial Guinea and Paraguay and Spain
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centipede in CommonParlance
- definition chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs, the foremost pair being modified as prehensors
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centner in CommonParlance
- definition a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms in the metric system
- definition in some European countries: a unit of weight equivalent to 50 kilograms
- definition a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds
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central in CommonParlance
- definition serving as an essential component
- definition in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area
- definition a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication
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central artery of the retina in CommonParlance
- definition a branch of the ophthalmic artery; enters the eyeball with the optic nerve
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central bank in CommonParlance
- definition a government monetary authority that issues currency and regulates the supply of credit and holds the reserves of other banks and sells new issues of securities for the government
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central body in CommonParlance
- definition small region of cytoplasm adjacent to the nucleus; contains the centrioles and serves to organize the microtubules
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central chimpanzee in CommonParlance
- definition black-faced chimpanzees of central Africa; closely related to eastern chimpanzees
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central city in CommonParlance
- definition the central part of a city
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central gyrus in CommonParlance
- definition either of two gyri on either side of the central sulcus
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central heating in CommonParlance
- definition a heating system in which air or water is heated at a central furnace and sent through the building via vents or pipes and radiators
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central nervous system in CommonParlance
- definition the portion of the vertebrate nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord
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central office in CommonParlance
- definition (usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise
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central processing unit in CommonParlance
- definition (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing
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central processor in CommonParlance
- definition (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing
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central scotoma in CommonParlance
- definition a scotoma that involves the fixation point
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central sulcus in CommonParlance
- definition a brain fissure extending upward on the lateral surface of both hemispheres; separates the frontal and parietal lobes
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central vein of retina in CommonParlance
- definition vein formed by the union of the retinal veins; accompanies central arteries of the retina in the optic nerve
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central vein of suprarenal gland in CommonParlance
- definition a single draining vein; on the right it empties into the inferior vena cava; on the left it empties into the left renal vein
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central veins of liver in CommonParlance
- definition terminal branches of the hepatic veins that lie in the hepatic lobules and receive blood from the liver sinusoids