different between conduction vs convention

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin conductio, conductionem (“a bringing together”); equivalent to conduct +? -ion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?d?k??n/
• Rhymes: -?k??n

Noun

conduction (countable and uncountable, plural conductions)

1. (physics) The conveying of heat or electricity through material.
2. The act of leading or guiding.

   • Hobab the son of Raguel the Madianite, who a??i?ted the Israelites in their conduction through the Wildernes of Pharan.

3. (obsolete) The act of training up.

   • every man has his beginning and conduction

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See also

• conduct
• conductivity
• conductor

English

Etymology

Recorded since about 1440, borrowed from Middle French convention, from Latin conventi? (“meeting, assembling; agreement, convention”), from conveni? (“come, gather or meet together, assemble”), from con- (“with, together”) + veni? (“come”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?n?v?n.??n/, /?k?n?v?n.??n/

Noun

convention (plural conventions)

1. A meeting or gathering.
2. A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates.

3. The convening of a formal meeting.
4. A formal agreement, contract or pact.
5. (international law) A treaty or supplement to such.

6. A practice or procedure widely observed in a group, especially to facilitate social interaction; a custom.

   • In order to account for this, we might propose to make the Prepositional Phrase an optional constituent of the Verb Phrase: this we could do by re-
     placing rule (28) (ii) by rule (40) below:
     (40)      VP ? V AP (PP)
     (Note that a constituent in parentheses is, by convention, taken to be
     optional.)

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin conventi?, conventi?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.v??.sj??/

Noun

convention f (plural conventions)

1. convention, agreement
2. convention (formal meeting)

3. convention (conventionally standardised choice)

Derived terms

• convention collective

Related terms

• conventionalisme m
• conventionnel
• conventionner
• convenir

Further reading

• “convention” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).