Grice suggests that the maxims are in fact not arbitrary conventions, but rather describe rational means for conducting cooperative exchanges.

The normalization coefficient in front of this transform, here unity, is an arbitrary convention and differs between treatments.

This solution has its problems, though; it overloads the natural meaning of a function with an arbitrary convention.

This means that every location in the memory has a label, usually a number but this is an arbitrary convention.

Put to one side the arbitrary convention that two successive quarters of economic shrinkage are needed to qualify for a recession.

Admittedly, time is an arbitrary convention in space; but I still enjoyed knowing I was awake while the rest of the ship slept.

Certain arbitrary conventions of abbreviation (and sometimes non-abbreviation) exist in the use of figured bass.

Are color categories determined by largely arbitrary linguistic convention?

These are just arbitrary conventions: they could have been different and still remained biologically realistic.

Its ubiquity is due to the arbitrary but common convention of using confidence intervals with 95% coverage rather than other coverages (such as 90% or 99%).