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condition
English
Etymology
From Middle English condicioun, from Old French condicion (French condition), from Latin condicio. Unetymological change in spelling due to confusion with conditio.
Pronunciation
- enPR: k?nd?sh??n, IPA(key): /k?n?d???n/
- Rhymes: -???n
Noun
condition (countable and uncountable, plural conditions)
- A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
- A requirement or requisite.
- (law) 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.
- Synonym: fettle
- A certain abnormal state of health; a malady or sickness.
- The state or quality.
- A particular state of being.
- (obsolete) The situation of a person or persons, particularly their social and/or economic class, rank.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- conditional
- precondition
Related terms
- condition subsequent
- in condition
- statement of condition
Translations
Verb
condition (third-person singular simple present conditions, present participle conditioning, simple past and past participle conditioned)
- 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.
- (transitive) To place conditions or limitations upon.
- To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.
- (transitive) To treat (the hair) with hair conditioner.
- (transitive) To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
- (transitive) To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
- (Can we find and add a quotation of McElrath to this entry?)
- (US, colleges, transitive) 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.
Derived terms
- air-condition
- conditioner
- precondition
- recondition
Translations
French
Etymology
From Middle French condition, from Old French condicion, Borrowed from Latin condici?, condici?nis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??.di.sj??/
Noun
condition f (plural conditions)
- term, condition
- condition, state
- en bonne condition - In good condition
- social status, walk of life
- Le couple se contentait de soirées entre amis de conditions diverses. — The couple was content with partying with friends from all walks of life.
Derived terms
- à condition que
- à condition de
- condition suffisante
- conditionnel
- conditions de vie
Further reading
- “condition” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French condicion, from Latin condicio
Noun
condition f (plural conditions)
- condition (state, quality)
Descendants
- French: condition
condition From the web:
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- what conditions qualify for disability
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intensity
English
Etymology
intense +? -ity. Cf. also Medieval Latin intensitas.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?t?ns?ti/
Noun
intensity (plural intensities)
- The quality of being intense.
- The degree of strength.
- (physics) Time-averaged energy flux (the ratio of average power to the area through which the power "flows"); irradiance.
- (optics) Can mean any of radiant intensity, luminous intensity or irradiance.
- (astronomy) Synonym of radiance.
- (geology) The severity of an earthquake in terms of its effects on the earth's surface, and buildings. The value depends on the distance from the epicentre, and is not to be confused with the magnitude.
Derived terms
- light intensity
- luminous intensity
Related terms
- intense
Translations
intensity From the web:
- what intensity means
- what intensity exercise should i do
- what intensity should warm-up activities be
- what intensity is yoga
- what intensity is walking
- what intensity is running
- what intensity level is walking
- what intensity is jogging
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