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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absentee ballot in CommonParlance
- definition (election) a ballot that is cast while absent (usually mailed in prior to election day)
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absentee rate in CommonParlance
- definition the percentage of workers who do not report to work
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absenteeism in CommonParlance
- definition habitual absence from work
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absently in CommonParlance
- definition in an absentminded or preoccupied manner
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absentminded in CommonParlance
- definition lost in thought; showing preoccupation
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absentmindedly in CommonParlance
- definition in an absentminded or preoccupied manner
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absentmindedness in CommonParlance
- definition preoccupation so great that the ordinary demands on attention are ignored
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absinth in CommonParlance
- definition strong green liqueur flavored with wormwood and anise
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absinthe in CommonParlance
- definition aromatic herb of temperate Eurasia and North Africa having a bitter taste used in making the liqueur absinthe
- definition strong green liqueur flavored with wormwood and anise
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absinthe oil in CommonParlance
- definition a dark bitter oil obtained from wormwood leaves; flavors absinthe liqueurs
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absolute in CommonParlance
- definition perfect or complete or pure
- definition complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
- definition not limited by law
- definition expressing finality with no implication of possible change
- definition not capable of being violated or infringed
- definition something that is conceived or that exists independently and not in relation to other things; something that does not depend on anything else and is beyond human control; something that is not relative
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absolute alcohol in CommonParlance
- definition pure ethyl alcohol (containing no more than 1% water)
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absolute ceiling in CommonParlance
- definition the maximum altitude at which an airplane can maintain horizontal flight
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absolute deviation in CommonParlance
- definition In statistics, the absolute difference between an element of a data set and a given point.
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absolute encoder in CommonParlance
- definition a rotary encoder that maintains position information when power is removed from the system.
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absolute frequency in CommonParlance
- definition the number of observations in a given statistical category
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absolute magnitude in CommonParlance
- definition (astronomy) the magnitude that a star would have if it were viewed from a distance of 10 parsecs (32.62 light years) from the earth
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absolute majority in CommonParlance
- definition (elections) more than half of the votes
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absolute music in CommonParlance
- definition instrumental music, as a concerto or string quartet, that draws no inspiration from or makes no reference to a text, program, visual image, or title and that exists solely in terms of its musical form, structure, and elements.
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absolute pitch in CommonParlance
- definition the ability to identify the pitch of a tone
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absolute scale in CommonParlance
- definition a temperature scale that defines absolute zero as 0 degrees; water freezes at 273.16 degrees and boils at 373.16 degrees
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absolute space in CommonParlance
- definition physical space independent of what occupies it
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absolute temperature in CommonParlance
- definition temperature measured on the absolute scale
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absolute threshold in CommonParlance
- definition the lowest level of stimulation that a person can detect
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absolute value in CommonParlance
- definition a real number regardless of its sign