Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Customary or conventional: applied to the present mode of English spelling: opposed to Glossic or phonetic.
- noun The customary or conventional English spelling. See
Glossic . - Of or pertaining to a nome. See
nome .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Customary; ordinary; -- applied to the usual English spelling, in distinction from strictly phonetic methods.
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- adjective dated
customary ;ordinary ; applied to the usualEnglish spelling , in distinction from strictlyphonetic methods.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Are they identity relations that are contingently necessary or will some sort of weaker relation, such as nomic coextensivity, suffice?
Intertheory Relations in Physics Batterman, Robert 2007
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Stated more generally, both the DN and IS models, share the common idea that, as Salmon (1989) puts it, “the essence of scientific explanation can be described as nomic expectability ” that is expectability on the basis of lawful connections” (1989, p. 57).
Scientific Explanation Woodward, James 2009
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Auto nomic urge, like a precious calico cat who starts power sneezing, fourteen straight in a lick, it's sick and you can't help but worry.
Lunch @ Chili's Is On Dollar Bill Dennis Mahagin 2011
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Economists warn it could put a brake on the euro zone's eco nomic recovery.
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No one, not even the unhinged anti-Muslim types on the right, is blaming Muslims for America's current eco nomic difficulties.
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A law is a second-order relation of nomic necessitation (N, for short) holding among two or more first-order properties.
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If N-relation accounts are on the right track, there is a reasonably rich realm of properties that is structured by one or more nomic relations.
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That is true, we see that x exists (empirical correlation), yet we don't know the cause of x (nomic necessity-that y always causes x).
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Fulks isn't sure whether he'll release the music on CD, but says this is not just an eco-nomic experiment.
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And if the properties F and G stand in a nomic relation, then the properties themselves (and not merely their instances) are related in a law-like way.
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