convenient means

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convenient
adjective
uk
/kənˈviː.ni.ənt/us
/kənˈviː.ni.ənt/
suitable for your purposes and needs and causing the ...
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mean
noun[S]
uk
/miːn/us
/miːn/
mathematicsspecialized
the result you get by adding two or more amounts together and dividing the total by the number ...
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Both students and practitioners need to have a convenient means of pursuing other areas of enquiry.
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In this case, preferences provide a convenient means to constrain the order between the decisions made by the configurator.
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While this adds an artificial end to the model, it provides a convenient means of analysing the problem faced by agents involved.
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Nowhere does he rely on experience as a convenient means of information in order to cover the insufficiencies of logical demonstration and its lacunae.
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The binomial nomenclature system provides a convenient means by which plant enthusiasts throughout the world can share botanical information for generations to come.
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Since policy programs are separate from the system (and integrated only on-demand) they are a convenient means for imposing consistent security restrictions on multiple hosts.
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Furthermore, the as form is a convenient means to define type aliases within function parameter lists for type expressions that are used as constraints.
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This is particularly so where community organisations of specific minority ethnic populations exist and offer a convenient means of access to their members.
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The temperature summation model is thus a convenient means for estimating development times of these species over the range of temperatures studied.
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Without these convenient means for word boundary detection, in the word segmentation guidelines we have to resort to phonological, syntactic, and semantic tests to decide on proper word boundaries.
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They are a convenient means of coining a name for a concept by contracting a series of words that express the basic essentials of the concept.
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The partitive genitive construction proves to be a convenient means of turning a word in the prose into a whole verse with much the same central idea.
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Will the provisions allow some discretion or understanding whereby local authorities and tenants can arrange the best and most convenient means the payment of rents and rates?
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The compound has, however, been widely used for decades as a safe and convenient means to inflate weather balloons.
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These articles happened to be the basic necessities of life and were a convenient means of exploitation.
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This technology is often used for tank gaging applications as a convenient means of liquid level and density measure.
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Therefore, privity in federal common law is a convenient means of expressing conclusions that are supported by independent analysis.
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This technology is often used for tank gauging applications as a convenient means of liquid level and density measure.
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The bank also offers telephone banking and electronic banking services as a fast and convenient means to serve individual and corporate clients respectively.
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The rickshaws were a convenient means of travel, able to traverse winding, narrow city streets.
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