| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | con·di·tion |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  k n-d sh n |
| NOUN: | 1. A mode or state of being: “The Organization Man survives as a modern classic because it captures a permanent part of our social condition” (Robert J. Samuelson). See synonyms at state. 2a. A state of health. b. A state of readiness or physical fitness. 3. A disease or physical ailment: a heart condition. 4. Social position; rank. 5. One that is indispensable to the appearance or occurrence of another; prerequisite: Compatibility is a condition of a successful marriage. 6. One that restricts or modifies another; a qualification. 7. conditions Existing circumstances: Conditions in the office made concentration impossible. 8. Grammar The dependent clause of a conditional sentence; protasis. 9. Logic A proposition on which another proposition depends; the antecedent of a conditional proposition. 10. Law a. A provision making the effect of a legal instrument contingent on the occurrence of an uncertain future event. b. The event itself. 11. An unsatisfactory grade given to a student, serving notice that deficiencies can be made up by the completion of additional work. 12. Obsolete Disposition; temperament. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: con·di·tioned, con·di·tion·ing, con·di·tions
1. To make dependent on a condition or conditions. 2. To stipulate as a condition. 3. To render fit for work or use. 4. To accustom (oneself or another) to; adapt: had to condition herself to long hours of hard work; conditioned the troops to marches at high altitudes. 5. To air-condition. 6. To give the unsatisfactory grade of condition to. 7. Psychology To cause an organism to respond in a specific manner to a conditioned stimulus in the absence of an unconditioned stimulus. 8. To replace moisture or oils in (hair, for example) by use of a therapeutic product. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English condicioun, from Old French condicion, from Late Latin conditi , conditin-, alteration of Latin condici, from cond cere, to agree : com-, com- + dcere, to talk; see deik- in Appendix I.
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