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Conventional
//kənˈvɛnʃənl̩// adj, noun
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Adjective
- 1 Pertaining to a convention, as in following generally accepted principles, methods and behaviour.
"A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays."
- 2 Ordinary, commonplace.
"They wear conventional clothes, eat conventional food, and keep conventional hours."
- 3 Banal, trite, hackneyed, unoriginal or clichéd.
- 4 Pertaining to a weapon which is not a weapon of mass destruction.
- 5 Making use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides.
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- 6 In accordance with a bidding convention, as opposed to a natural bid.
Adjective
- 1 following accepted customs and proprieties wordnet
- 2 unimaginative and conformist wordnet
- 3 (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy wordnet
- 4 in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past wordnet
- 5 rigidly formal or bound by convention wordnet
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- 6 conforming with accepted standards wordnet
- 7 represented in simplified or symbolic form wordnet
Noun
- 1 A conventional gilt-edged security, a kind of bond paying the holder a fixed cash payment (or coupon) every six months until maturity, at which point the holder receives the final payment and the return of the principal.
Etymology
Etymology 1
From convention + -al.
Etymology 2
From convention + -al.
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