custom
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set of agreed, stipulated, or generally accepted standards, norms, social norms, or criteria
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- convention
- Said to be same as
- tradition
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- Commons category
- Traditions
- topic's main category
- Category:Customs
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Encyclopedic overview
A convention influences a set of agreed, stipulated, or generally accepted standards, social norms, or other criteria, often taking the form of a custom.
In physical sciences, numerical values (such as constants, quantities, or scales of measurement) are called conventional if they do not represent a measured property of nature, but originate in a convention, for example an average of many measurements, agreed between the scientists working with these values.
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