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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centre spread in CommonParlance
- definition the spread at the center of a magazine
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centre stage in CommonParlance
- definition a position of prominence or importance
- definition the central area on a theater stage
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centreboard in CommonParlance
- definition a retractable fin keel used on sailboats to prevent drifting to leeward
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centred in CommonParlance
- definition being or placed in the center
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centrefold in CommonParlance
- definition a magazine center spread; especially a foldout of a large photograph or map or other feature
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centrepiece in CommonParlance
- definition the central or most important feature
- definition something placed at the center of something else (as on a table)
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centrex in CommonParlance
- definition (CENTRal EXchange) a kind of telephone exchange
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centric in CommonParlance
- definition having or situated at or near a center
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centrical in CommonParlance
- definition having or situated at or near a center
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centrifugal in CommonParlance
- definition tending to move away from a center
- definition tending away from centralization, as of authority
- definition conveying information to the muscles from the CNS
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centrifugal force in CommonParlance
- definition the outward force on a body moving in a curved path around another body
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centrifugal pump in CommonParlance
- definition a pump that use centrifugal force to discharge fluid into a pipe
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centrifugate in CommonParlance
- definition rotate at very high speed in order to separate the liquids from the solids
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centrifugation in CommonParlance
- definition the process of separating substances of different densities by the use of a centrifuge
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centrifuge in CommonParlance
- definition an apparatus that uses centrifugal force to separate particles from a suspension
- definition rotate at very high speed in order to separate the liquids from the solids
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centring in CommonParlance
- definition (American football) putting the ball in play by passing it (between the legs) to a back
- definition the concentration of attention or energy on something
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centriole in CommonParlance
- definition one of a pair of small cylindrical cell organelles near the nucleus in animal cells; composed of nine triplet microtubules and form the asters during mitosis
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centripetal in CommonParlance
- definition tending to move toward a center
- definition tending to unify
- definition of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system
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centripetal acceleration in CommonParlance
- definition the acceleration toward the center that holds a satellite in elliptical orbit
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centripetal force in CommonParlance
- definition the inward force on a body moving in a curved path around another body
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centrism in CommonParlance
- definition a political philosophy of avoiding the extremes of left and right by taking a moderate position or course of action
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centrist in CommonParlance
- definition supporting or pursuing a course of action that is neither liberal nor conservative
- definition a person who takes a position in the political center
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centroid in CommonParlance
- definition the center of mass of an object of uniform density
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centroidal in CommonParlance
- definition of or relating to (especially passing through) a centroid
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centromere in CommonParlance
- definition a specialized condensed region of each chromosome that appears during mitosis where the chromatids are held together to form an X shape