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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 ...
A convention (or event), in the sense of a meeting, is a gathering of individuals who meet at an arranged place and time in order to discuss or engage in some common interest. The most common conventions are based upon industry, profession, and fandom.
Convention may refer to: Convention (norm), a custom or tradition, a standard of presentation or conduct Treaty, an agreement in international law; Convention (political norm), uncodified legal or political tradition; Convention (meeting), meeting of a (usually large) group of individuals and/or companies in a certain field who share a common ...
A naming convention is a convention (generally agreed scheme) for naming things. Conventions differ in their intents, which may include to: Conventions differ in their intents, which may include to:
A convention, also known as a constitutional convention, is an uncodified tradition that is followed by the institutions of a state. In some states, notably those Commonwealth states that follow the Westminster system and whose political systems derive from British constitutional law, most government functions are guided by constitutional convention rather than by a formal written constitution.
A convention to propose amendments to the United States Constitution, also referred to as an Article V Convention, state convention, [1] or amendatory convention is one of two methods authorized by Article Five of the United States Constitution whereby amendments to the United States Constitution may be proposed: on the Application of two thirds of the State legislatures (that is, 34 of the 50 ...
Coding conventions are only applicable to the human maintainers and peer reviewers of a software project. Conventions may be formalized in a documented set of rules that an entire team or company follows, [1] or may be as informal as the habitual coding practices of an individual. Coding conventions are not enforced by compilers.
Comic Frontier, a doujinshi convention held in Jakarta, Indonesia Two young women cosplaying as anime characters during the 2007 Animecon in Jyväskylä, Finland. A fan convention (also known as a con or fan meeting) is an event in which fans of a particular topic gather to participate and hold programs and other events, and to meet experts, famous personalities, and each other.