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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absolute viscosity in CommonParlance
- definition a measure of the resistance to flow of a fluid under an applied force
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absolute zero in CommonParlance
- definition (cryogenics) the lowest temperature theoretically attainable (at which the kinetic energy of atoms and molecules is minimal); 0 Kelvin or -273.15 centigrade or -459.67 Fahrenheit
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absolutely in CommonParlance
- definition completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers
- definition totally and definitely; without question
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absoluteness in CommonParlance
- definition the quality of being complete or utter or extreme
- definition the quality of being absolute
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absolution in CommonParlance
- definition the condition of being formally forgiven by a priest in the sacrament of penance
- definition the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance
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absolutisation in CommonParlance
- definition the process of rendering something absolute or converting it into an absolute.
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absolutism in CommonParlance
- definition dominance through threat of punishment and violence
- definition a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
- definition an ideological belief in the complete and unrestricted power of government.
- definition the doctrine of an absolute being, often related to idealism in philosophy.
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absolutist in CommonParlance
- definition pertaining to the principle of totalitarianism
- definition one who advocates absolutism
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absolutistic in CommonParlance
- definition pertaining to the principle of totalitarianism
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absolutization in CommonParlance
- definition the process of rendering something absolute or converting it into an absolute.
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absolve in CommonParlance
- definition grant remission of a sin to
- definition let off the hook
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absolved in CommonParlance
- definition freed from any question of guilt
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absolver in CommonParlance
- definition someone who grants absolution
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absolvitory in CommonParlance
- definition providing absolution
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absorb in CommonParlance
- definition become imbued
- definition take up mentally
- definition take up, as of debts or payments
- definition take in, also metaphorically
- definition cause to become one with
- definition suck or take up or in
- definition devote (oneself) fully to
- definition assimilate or take in
- definition consume all of one's attention or time
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absorbable in CommonParlance
- definition capable of being absorbed or taken in through the pores of a surface
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absorbance in CommonParlance
- definition (physics) a measure of the extent to which a substance transmits light or other electromagnetic radiation
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absorbate in CommonParlance
- definition a material that has been or is capable of being absorbed
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absorbed in CommonParlance
- definition giving or marked by complete attention to
- definition retained without reflection
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absorbefacient in CommonParlance
- definition inducing or promoting absorption
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absorbency in CommonParlance
- definition the property of being absorbent
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absorbent in CommonParlance
- definition having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids or energy etc.)
- definition a material having capacity or tendency to absorb another substance
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absorbent cotton in CommonParlance
- definition cotton made absorbent by removal of the natural wax
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absorbent material in CommonParlance
- definition a material having capacity or tendency to absorb another substance
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absorber in CommonParlance
- definition (physics) material in a nuclear reactor that absorbs radiation