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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
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modification
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French modification, from Latin modificatio (“a measuring”), from modificare (“to limit, control, modify”); see modify.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?m?d?f??ke???n/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?m?d?f??ke???n/
- Hyphenation: mod?i?fi?ca?tion
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
modification (countable and uncountable, plural modifications)
- (obsolete, philosophy) The form of existence belonging to a particular object, entity etc.; a mode of being. [17th–19th c.]
- 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Penguin 2004, p. 72:
- Pleasure is the business of woman's life, according to the present modification of society […].
- 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Penguin 2004, p. 72:
- (linguistics) the change undergone by a word when used in a construction (for instance am => 'm in I'm) [from 17th c.]
- The result of modifying something; a new or changed form. [from 17th c.]
- The act of making a change to something while keeping its essential character intact; an alteration or adjustment. [from 18th c.]
- Jim's modification to the radio's tuning resulted in clearer sound.
- (biology) A change to an organism as a result of its environment that is not transmissable to offspring. [from 19th c.]
- Due to his sunbathing, Jim's body experienced modifications: he got a tan.
- (linguistics) a change to a word when it is borrowed by another language
- The Chinese word "kòu tóu" had a modification made to become the English "kowtow".
Related terms
- modify
- modifier
Translations
Further reading
- modification in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- modification in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- domification
French
Etymology
From Latin modific?ti?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m?.di.fi.ka.sj??/
Noun
modification f (plural modifications)
- modification
- Synonyms: altération, transformation
Related terms
- modifiable
- modificateur
- modifier
- modifieur
Further reading
- “modification” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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