condition

Meanings

Noun

• A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
• A requirement or requisite.
• A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal obligation in some way.
• The health status of a medical patient.
• A certain abnormal state of health; a malady or sickness.
• The state or quality.
• A particular state of being.
• The situation of a person or persons, particularly their social and/or economic class, rank.

Verb

• To subject to the process of acclimation.
• To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.
• To make dependent on a condition to be fulfilled; to make conditional on.
• To place conditions or limitations upon.
• To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.
• To treat (the hair) with hair conditioner.
• To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
• To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
• 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.
• To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• human condition
• interesting condition
• Marshall-Lerner condition
• mint condition
• necessary condition
• precondition
• sufficient condition
• underlying condition

Origin

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