condition

Betekenis

Noun

1. A state or quality.
2. (obsolete) A state or quality.
3. A state or quality.
4. A state or quality.
5. A state or quality.
6. A requirement.
7. A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
8. A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal obligation in some way.

Verb

1. To subject to the process of acclimation.
2. To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.
3. To make dependent on a condition to be fulfilled; to make conditional on.
4. To place conditions or limitations upon.
5. To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.
6. To treat (the hair) with hair conditioner.
7. To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
8. To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
9. To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up a specified study, as a condition of remaining in one's class or in college.
10. To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.

Met koppelteken als

con‧dit‧ion

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/kənˈdɪʃn̩/

Etymologie

From Middle English condicioun, from Old French condicion (French condition), from Latin condicio. Unetymological change in spelling due to confusion with conditio.