Noun

(en noun)

A meeting or gathering.

The convention was held in Geneva.

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, year=2012 , date=May 30 , author=Katherine Stewart , title=How Christian fundamentalists plan to teach genocide to schoolchildren , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=The CEF and the legal advocacy groups that have been responsible for its tremendous success over the past ten years are determined to "Knock down all doors, all the barriers, to all 65,000 public elementary schools in America and take the Gospel to this open mission field now! Not later, now!" in the words of a keynote speaker at the CEF's national convention in 2010.}}

A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates

''The EU installed an inter-institutional Convention to draft a European constitution

The convening of a formal meeting

A formal agreement, contract or pact

(international law) A treaty or supplement to such.

''The Vienna convention at the Vienna Congress (1814-15) standardized most of diplomatic conduct for generations

A generally accepted principle, method or behaviour.

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placing rule (28) (ii) by rule (40) below:
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(Note that a constituent in parentheses is, by convention , taken to be
optional.)

''Table seatings are generally determined by tacit convention , not binding formal protocol

The convention of driving on the right is reinforced by law.

Noun

A particular method for performing a task.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-14, volume=411, issue=8891, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= It's a gas , passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.}}

A series of small tasks or steps taken to accomplish an end.

(label) The set of established forms or methods of an organized body for accomplishing a certain task or tasks.

The steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.

* (Isaac Taylor) (1787–1865)

Gracious procedures .

(label) That which results; issue; product.

(Bacon)

(label) A subroutine or function coded to perform a specific task.

(label) A surgical operation.