Condition Definition
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Etymology
From Latin conditiō, noun of action from perfect passive participle conditus, + noun of action suffix -io.
Pronunciation
- enPR: kəndĭ'shən, kŭndĭ'shən, IPA: /kənˈdɪʃən/, /kʌnˈdɪʃən/, SAMPA: /k@n"dIS@n/, /kVn"dIS@n/
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Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪʃən
Noun
condition (plural conditions)
- A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
- A requirement, term, or requisite.
- Environmental protection is a condition for sustainability.
- What other planets might have the right conditions for life?
- The union had a dispute over sick time and other conditions of employment.
- The health status of a medical patient.
- My aunt couldn't walk up the stairs in her condition.
- The state or quality.
- National reports on the condition of public education are dismal.
- The condition of man can be classified as civilized or uncivilized.
- A particular state of being.
- Hypnosis is a peculiar condition of the nervous system.
- Steps were taken to ameliorate the condition of slavery.
- Security is defined as the condition of not being threatened.
- Aging is a condition over which we are powerless.
- (obsolete) The situation of a person or persons, particularly their social and/or economic class, rank.
- A man of his condition has no place to make request.
Quotations
- For examples of the usage of this term see the citations page.
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Terms derived from condition (noun)
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Verb
condition (third-person singular simple present conditions, present participle conditioning, simple past and past participle conditioned)
- To subject to the process of acclimation.
- I became conditioned to the absence of seasons in San Diego.
- To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.
- They were conditioning their shins in their karate class.
- To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.
- (transitive) To treat (the hair) with hair conditioner.
Derived terms
Terms derived from condition (verb)Translations
to undergo the process of acclimation
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- Most common English words before 1923: generally · ago · easily · #685: condition · sleep · ex · mere
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Noun
condition f. (plural conditions)
- condition
- en bonne condition - In good condition
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Condition
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Look up condition in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Condition or conditions may refer to:Contents
Logic
- Logical conditional
- Necessary and sufficient condition, condition of another means that the former statement is true if and only if the latter is true
Computer programming
- Condition, a generalization of exceptions in exception-handling
- Condition (SQL), a filtering mechanism in relational-database queries
- Condition variable, a synchronization primitive
Other
- Living condition
- Medical condition, the state of one's health
- State of being
- Status effect, a condition in computer gaming
- Condition number, a measure of a matrix in digital computation
- In contract law, part of covenants, conditions and restrictions
- Conditions (album), 2009 debut album by Australian rock band The Temper Trap
- Conditions (magazine), a lesbian feminist literary annual
- Conditions (Russia), part of the constitution of Russia, signed by Anna of Russia in 1730
- Diazepam, a drug also known by the trade name Condition
See also
- All pages beginning with "Condition"
- All pages with titles containing "Condition"
- Conditional (disambiguation)
- Conditioner (disambiguation)
- Conditioning (disambiguation)
Matching Results for Condition:
Eugène IonescoIt is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa. ... It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa. ...
Henry George
Nay, more, that it is still further to depress the condition of the lowest class. ... Where the conditions to which material progress everywhere tends are ...
Friedrich Engels
Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat. ... The physical condition of the workers shows a progressive deterioration. ...
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