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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coding system in CommonParlance
- definition a system of signals used to represent letters or numbers in transmitting messages
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codlin moth in CommonParlance
- definition a small grey moth whose larvae live in apples and English walnuts
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codling in CommonParlance
- definition young codfish
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codling moth in CommonParlance
- definition a small grey moth whose larvae live in apples and English walnuts
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codlins-and-cream in CommonParlance
- definition plant of Europe and Asia having purplish-red flowers and hairy stems and leaves; introduced into North America
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codon in CommonParlance
- definition a specific sequence of three adjacent nucleotides on a strand of DNA or RNA that specifies the genetic code information for synthesizing a particular amino acid
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codpiece in CommonParlance
- definition (15th-16th century) a flap for the crotch of men's tight-fitting breeches
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codswallop in CommonParlance
- definition nonsensical talk or writing
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coeducate in CommonParlance
- definition educate persons of both sexes together
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coeducation in CommonParlance
- definition education of men and women in the same institutions
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coeducational in CommonParlance
- definition attended by members of both sexes
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coefficient in CommonParlance
- definition a constant number that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic
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coefficient of absorption in CommonParlance
- definition a measure of the rate of decrease in the intensity of electromagnetic radiation (as light) as it passes through a given substance; the fraction of incident radiant energy absorbed per unit mass or thickness of an absorber
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coefficient of concordance in CommonParlance
- definition a coefficient of agreement (concordance) between different sets of rank orderings of the same set of things
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coefficient of correlation in CommonParlance
- definition a statistic representing how closely two variables co-vary; it can vary from -1 (perfect negative correlation) through 0 (no correlation) to +1 (perfect positive correlation)
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coefficient of drag in CommonParlance
- definition the ratio of the drag on a body moving through air to the product of the velocity and the surface area of the body
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coefficient of elasticity in CommonParlance
- definition (physics) the ratio of the applied stress to the change in shape of an elastic body
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coefficient of expansion in CommonParlance
- definition the fractional change in length or area or volume per unit change in temperature at a given constant pressure
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coefficient of friction in CommonParlance
- definition the ratio of the weight of an object being moved along a surface and the force that maintains contact between the object and the surface
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coefficient of mutual induction in CommonParlance
- definition a measure of the induction between two circuits; the ratio of the electromotive force in a circuit to the corresponding change of current in a neighboring circuit; usually measured in henries
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coefficient of reflection in CommonParlance
- definition the fraction of radiant energy that is reflected from a surface
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coefficient of self induction in CommonParlance
- definition the ratio of the electromotive force produced in a circuit by self-induction to the rate of change of current producing it, expressed in henries
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coefficient of viscosity in CommonParlance
- definition a measure of the resistance to flow of a fluid under an applied force
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coelacanth in CommonParlance
- definition fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa
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coelenterate in CommonParlance
- definition radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp and medusa forms