A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies onconventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays.
“You’re notconventional?” Isabel gravely asked. “I like the way you utter that word! No, I’m notconventional: I’m convention itself. You don’t understand that?”
Mother[…]considered that the exclusiveness of Peter's circle was due not to its distinction, but to the fact that it was an inner Babylon of prodigality and whoredom, from which every Kensingtonian held aloof, except on theconventional tip-and-run excursions in pursuit of shopping, tea and theatres.
The history of our study of our solar system shows us clearly that accepted andconventional ideas are often wrong, and that fundamental insights can arise from the most unexpected sources.
(finance) A conventional gilt-edged security, a kind ofbond paying the holder a fixed cash payment (orcoupon) every six months untilmaturity, at which point the holder receives the final payment and the return of theprincipal.
