Encyclo - De online Nederlandstalige encyclopedie뮠in 驮 oogopslag
Encyclopedia Sources Categories About Encyclo      Enzyklopädie-DE Encyclopedie-NL
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Index
Agriculture and Industry
Animals and Nature
Architecture and Buildings
Arts
Business and Law
Earth and Environment
Economy and Finance
Education
Electronics and Engineering
Film and Animation
Food and Drink
General
General technical and industrial
Government and organisations
Health and Medicine
History and Culture
Hobbies and Crafts
Language and Literature
Legal
Management
Mathematics and statistics
Meteorology and astronomy
Military and Defence
Music and Sound
People and society
Sciences
Sport and Leisure
Technical and IT
Travel and Transportation

Look up: conventional

  1. conventional
    [Adjective] If something is conventional it is being done in the usual way.
    Example: He was dressed in the conventional way, in a suit and tie.
    See also: convention
    Found on http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/glossary

  2. conventional
    [adj] - (fine arts) represented in simplified or symbolic form 2. [adj] - conforming with accepted standards 3. [adj] - in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past 4. [adj] - weapons that are not nuclear 5. [adj] - unimaginative and conformist 6. [ad...
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. conventional
    in describing punched card equipment,used to distinguish tabulators,sorters,collators,etc.,from computers.Coined at a time when computers were unconventional Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  4. Conventional
    Con·ven'tion·al adjective [ Latin conventionalis : confer French conventionnel .] 1. Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated. « Conventional services reserved by tenures upon grants, made out of the crown or knigh...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/152

  5. conventional
    Following what is traditional or customary. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  6. conventional
    established adjective conforming with accepted standards; `a conventional view of the world`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  7. conventional
    formal adjective represented in simplified or symbolic form
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  8. conventional
    adjective in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past; `a conventional church wedding with the bride in traditional white`; `the conventional handshake`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  9. conventional
    adjective following accepted customs and proprieties; `conventional wisdom`; `she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior`; `conventional forms of address`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  10. Conventional
    • (a.) Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by general concurrence or usage; formal. • (a.) Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated. • (a.) Based upon tradition, whether religious and historical or of artistic rules. • (a.) Abstracted; removed...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  11. conventional
    following what is traditional or customary.
    Found on http://users.ugent.be/~rvdstich/eugloss/

  12. conventional
    conventional Relating to convention or general agreement; established by social convention; having its origin or sanction merely in an artificial convention of any kind; arbitrarily or artificially determined.
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  13. Conventional
    Refers to a type of with profits policy where payment of premiums guarantees an amount in the future.
    Found on http://www.royallondongroup.co.uk/corpor



...

12 February 2012

This day in history:
/calendar/ On February 12, 1809, Charles Robert Darwin was born at The Mount in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. Darwin was one of the last of the eclectic scientists who preceded the age of professional specialization. His genius lay in his ability to select, from the facts which he so diligently collected, every relevant point and fit it into his bold and far-reaching theories. He was not the first to advance a theory of evolution; but his massive weight of evidence carried conviction where earlier theorists had failed. He was shy and modest and shrank from controversy, an unfortunate trait in the author of the most controversial book of the century. read more

Encyclo in your browser

Encyclo in the search bar of your browser? Click for more info! Would you like to use Encyco more often? Add an (extra) search option to the search field of your browser. Installed in 3 seconds, easy to remove.
More info

Statistics

Encyclo has been online since october 15th 2007. It currently contains 3,485,243 words from 1122 sources. The words are listed in 32 categories.

Search

Type a word and press the `Search` button.

Recent searches

The most recent searches on Encyclo. Between brackets you will find the number of results and number of related results.
marni (3/25)
bpl (3/4)
Density (4/25)
ETX (3/6)
ore (22/25)
Fronton (5/21)
Deficiency (7/25)
Fustic (7/0)
Discrete (3/25)
Multi-room (2/0)
silk (5/25)
Dolomite (2/11)
Currency (5/25)
Demetrius (2/25)
Dispersed (8/16)
phototropism (16/0)
Complementary (3/25)
Cristóbal (6/13)
Affluent (9/8)
Cantiniere (2/0)
Cubicity (2/0)
Commemorative (9/12)
Neb (6/25)
Belonidae (2/0)

© Encyclo MMXI
Contact Privacy