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SUO: RE: Re: SUOP Topic :> Definition Of Conformance




Dear Jon,

See below.


Matthew West
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Awbrey [mailto:jawbrey@att.net]
> Sent: 26 November 2003 03:04
> To: SUO
> Subject: SUO: Re: SUOP Topic :> Definition Of Conformance
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> SUOPT :> Conformance.  Note 2
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> In: SUOPT Outline.      http://suo.ieee.org/email/thrd1.html#11635
> Re: SUOPT :> CDOPT 04.  http://suo.ieee.org/email/msg11828.html
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> Matthew gives the following definition:
> 
> | Conformance.
> |
> | Agreeing or corresponding in character or qualities.
> | 
> | Source.  Taken from the 'Oxford English Dictionary'
> |          definition for "congruous".
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> I find that puzzling.  Why not just look up "conformance"?

MW: In the OED the most promising definition of conformance referenced
congruos, so I just followed the link.
> 
> | Conformance.  SYN:  Conformity.
> | 
> | Conformity.
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> | 1.  Correspondence in form, manner, or character.
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> |     Agreement.
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> | 2.  An act of instance of conforming.
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> | 3.  Action in accordance with some specified standard or authority.
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> |     Obedience.
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> | Source.  'Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary'.
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> In fine, much of the work in these definitions is done by the
> ideas of Accordance, Agreement, Correspondence, and Obedience.
> 
> Jon Awbrey
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