alargeeventwherefansof(=peoplewho are veryenthusiasticabout)aparticularTVprogramme,film,computergame, etc. canmeeteach other and some of thepeopleinvolvedin making theprogramme,film, etc.:
Thousands ofpeoplewere intownfor the country'slargestannualcomicbookconvention.
Rather than trying to deduce arbitrary practices from some general psychosocial principles, we must look at the social functions that particular conventions serve.
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What conventions to use for types and identifiers (section 7).
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The choice of which names to use is not restricted by the language; any conventions are up to the library designer to suggest.
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The other represents the particular set of cultural conventions associated with industrial capitalism: profit and loss, contract and competition, success and failure.
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The original passage has ' conventions ' instead of ' consequences ', but from the context this seems clearly to be a mistake. 40.
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The happy endings are mere conventions, mere formulae for bringing the narrative to an end.
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Throughout the paper we adopt the following naming conventions.
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However, the close call may have convinced party leaders not to concede as much ground to civil rights proponents at future conventions.
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Carter compares this and other administrative conventions to various occupational diseases at the start and end of the twentieth century.
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In other words, it is because conventions are not reducible to particular structures of feeling that they can be a vehicle for articulating these structures.
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In addressing larger questions, they attend to the specicities, the conventions, generic constraints, and traditions of the arts they study.
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In general, they conform to the pictorial conventions of urban representation as defined by guide-book illustrations.
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When a party failed to find common ground upon which all their members could stand, these conventions often broke up as the losers bolted.
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The conventions and borders of art practice, sonic or visual, are defined enough to withstand an emotional onslaught.
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Reconstructing ancient viewing conventions has been made much easier by studies of this kind.
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accepted convention
There is no accepted convention for the identification of outliers.
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anime convention
The convention offers anime screenings, video games, a dealers room, guest panels, fan panels, cosplay competitions, and many other events typical of an anime convention.
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annual convention
It hosts anannualconventionat which energy policy is debated and co-funds studies into energy policy.
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