Category: C

  • Conventional adultery

    Adultery in which people hide their extramarital relationships from their mates.  

  • Convene

    In politics, the meeting of the legislature daily, weekly, and at the beginning of the session as provided by the constitution or law.  

  • Convenience sample

    A sample that is not representative of the population about which inferences will be made. A group of research subjects selected casually, without scrupulously randomizing them.  

  • Convalescent stage of a disease

    Following the decline stage, symptoms have disappeared and the person is entering the recovery period.  

  • Convalescence

    The period of recovery from a disease. To get back to good health gradually after an illness or operation. A period of time when someone is convalescing. Period of recovery from injury, illness, or surgery, generally the time after the crisis has passed until health is regained. The process of recovery after an injury, illness,…

  • Control tool

    A specific procedure or technique that presents pertinent organizational information in such a way that a manager is aided in developing and implementing appropriate control strategy.  

  • Control table

    In epidemiology, a graphic presentation of data relating to two or more variables while illustrating or controlling for the effect of other variables.  

  • Control processes

    In memory model, the processes used to transfer, store, and retrieve information.  

  • Control practices

    In parenting, procedures parents use to exert their will in situations of parent-child conflict. General categories for include power assertion, love withdrawal, and induction.  

  • Controlling

    In epidemiology, examining the effect of one variable on a health condition while taking into account the effect of another variable.