Dictionary Definition
condition
Noun
1 a state at a particular time; "a condition (or
state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations"
[syn: status]
2 a mode of being or form of existence of a
person or thing; "the human condition"
3 an assumption on which rests the validity or
effect of something else [syn: precondition, stipulation]
4 (usually plural) a statement of what is
required as part of an agreement; "the contract set out the
conditions of the lease"; "the terms of the treaty were generous"
[syn: term]
5 the state of (good) health (especially in the
phrases `in condition' or `in shape' or `out of condition' or `out
of shape') [syn: shape]
6 information that should be kept in mind when
making a decision; "another consideration is the time it would
take" [syn: circumstance, consideration]
7 the procedure that is varied in order to
estimate a variable's effect by comparison with a control condition
[syn: experimental
condition]
Verb
1 establish a conditioned response
2 train by instruction and practice; especially
to teach self-control; "Parents must discipline their children";
"Is this dog trained?" [syn: discipline, train, check]
3 specify as a condition or requirement in a
contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an
agreement; "The will stipulates that she can live in the house for
the rest of her life"; "The contract stipulates the dates of the
payments" [syn: stipulate, qualify, specify]
4 put into a better state; "he conditions old
cars"
5 apply conditioner to in order to make smooth
and shiny; "I condition my hair after washing it"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From Latin conditio, noun of action from perfect passive participle conditus, + noun of action suffix -ioPronunciation
- /kɒndiʃən/|/kʌnˈdɪ.ʃən/
Noun
- A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
- The health status of a medical patient.
- The state of any object, referring to the amount of its wear.
- The situation of a person or persons, particularly their social
and/or economic class.
- 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Modern Library Edition
(1995), page 140
- Could you expect me to rejoice in the inferiority of your connections?---to congratulate myself on the hope of relations, whose condition in life is so decidedly beneath my own?
- 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Modern Library Edition
(1995), page 140
Translations
logical clause or phrase
- Chinese:
- Czech: podmínka
- Danish: bekostning
- Finnish: ehto, edellytys
- German: Bedingung, Kondition
- Hebrew: תנאי (tnai)
- Italian: condizione
- Japanese: 条件 ()
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: شهرت
- Latin: conditio
- Persian: (shart)
- Russian: условие
- Slovene: pogoj
- Spanish: condición
- Swedish: tillstånd
- Telugu: స్థితి (sthithi), పరిస్థితి (paristhithi)
health status of a patient
state of an object
Verb
- To undergo 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.
Translations
To undergo the process of acclimation
- Chinese:
- Finnish: sopeutua, mukautua
- German: konditionieren
- Japanese: 順応する (), 適応する ()
- Russian: привыкать (privykát') , привыкнуть (privýknut') ; приспосабливаться (prisposáblivat's'a) , приспособиться (prisposóbit's'a)
- Swedish: vänja sig
To subject to different conditions
- German: konditionieren
- Japanese: 調整する ()
To shape the behaviour of someone to do
something
- Finnish: ehdollistaa
- German: konditionieren
- Japanese: 調整する ()
- Russian: приспосабливать (prisposáblivat') , приспособить (prisposóbit) ; приучать (priučát') , приучить (priučít')
Translations to be checked
- ttbc Indonesian: keadaan, syarat
- ttbc Italian: condizionare
- ttbc Romanian: condiţie
- ttbc Turkish: koşul
Extensive Definition
Condition can refer to:
- A state of being.
- Living condition, see Quality of life.
- A disease, such as a heart condition.
- A proposition upon which another proposition depends, such as "if-then" statements. See logical conditional.
- To cause a certain response to a stimulus, see conditioning.
- To replace moisture or oils, especially in hair, see conditioner.
- To change climate to an appropriate level, see air conditioning.
- A status effect which is usually negative, see Condition (computer gaming).
- A state which is induced in the subject of a psychological experiment, see condition (experimental psychology).
- The Condition number, a measure of a matrix in digital computation.
See also
- Conditional (disambiguation)
condition in Czech: Podmínka
condition in German: Kondition
condition in French: Condition
condition in Simple English: Condition
condition in Chinese: 条件
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abate,
ability, abnormality, acclimate, acclimatize, accommodate, accustom, acute disease,
adapt, adjust, adjust to, affairs, affection, affliction, ailment, allergic disease,
allergy, alter, apprentice, assuage, atrophy, attach a condition,
attune, bacterial
disease, bearings, beat
into, birth defect, blight, bound, boundary condition, box in,
brainwash, break, break in, breed, bring up, capability, capacitate, capacity, cardiovascular
disease, case, case harden,
caste, catch, catechize, character, chronic disease,
circulatory disease, circumscribe, circumstance, circumstances, class, clause, cobble, commission, competence, competency, complaint, complication, concerns, condition of things,
conditions, confine, confirm, congenital defect,
conjuncture,
contain, contingency, copyright, cultivate, darn, dealings, defect, deficiency disease,
deformity,
degenerative disease, demand, develop, diminish, disability, discipline, disease, disorder, distemper, do up, doctor, doings, domesticate, domesticize, donnee, draw the line, drill, echelon, educate, enable, endemic, endemic disease,
endocrine disease, environment, epidemic
disease, equip, escalator
clause, escape clause, escape hatch, establish, estate, event, eventuality, exception, exemption, exercise, familiarize, fetch up,
fettle, fine print,
fit, fit out, fit up,
fitness, fittedness, fix, fix up, footing, form, foster, functional disease,
fungus disease, furnish,
gastrointestinal disease, genetic disease, gentle, get ready, given, goings-on, groom, grounds, habituate, handicap, harden, have a catch, have a
joker, health, hedge, hedge about, hereditary
disease, hierarchy,
house-train, housebreak, iatrogenic
disease, ill, illness, imbue, implant, impregnate, impress, improve, incident, inculcate, indisposition, indoctrinate, infectious
disease, infirmity,
infix, influence, infuse, inoculate, insist upon,
instill, inure, jam, joker, juncture, kicker, kilter, leaven, life, limit, limitation, limiting
condition, location,
lot, make conditional, make
contingent, make ready, malady, malaise, march of events,
mastery, matters, maturity, mend, mitigate, modality, mode, moderate, modification, modify, modulate, morbidity, morbus, mould, muscular disease, must, narrow, naturalize, necessity, neurological
disease, nurse, nurture, nutritional disease,
obligation, occasion, occupational disease,
occurrence, order, organic disease, orient, orientate, outfit, overhaul, palliate, pandemic disease,
parameter, part, pass, patch, patch up, patent, pathological condition,
pathology, persuade, pickle, place, plant disease, plight, position, posture, power structure,
practice, precedence, predicament, prepare, preparedness, prerequisite, proceedings, proficiency, program, protozoan disease,
provision, provisions, proviso, psychosomatic disease,
put in commission, put in order, put in repair, put in shape, put
in trim, put in tune, put to school, qualification, qualify, quality, quarters, raise, rank, rate, rating, readiness, ready, rear, recap, recondition, reduce, register, regulate by, rehearse, relation, relations, repair, requirement, requisite, reservation, respiratory
disease, restrain,
restrict, restriction, retread, ripeness, rockiness, role, run of things, saving clause,
scant, season, seasoning, secondary disease,
seediness, send to
school, service, set
conditions, set limits, set to rights, sew up, shape, sickishness, sickness, signs, sine qua non, situation, small print,
soften, specialize, specification, sphere, spot, stage, standing, state, state of affairs, station, status, stint, stipulate, stipulation, straiten, string, strings, suit, suitability, suitableness, suitedness, symptomatology, symptomology, symptoms, syndrome, take in hand,
tame, teach, temper, tempering, term, terms, the pip, the times, the
world, tinker, tinker up,
train, trim, tune, ultimatum, urogenital disease,
virus disease, wasting disease, what happens, whereas, wont, worm
disease