Definitions
1.nounA logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
2.nounA requirement or requisite."Environmental protection is a condition for sustainability. What other planets might have the right conditions for life? The union had a dispute over sick time and other conditions of employment."
3.nounA clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal obligation in some way.
4.nounThe health status of a medical patient."My aunt couldn't walk up the stairs in her condition."
5.nounThe state or quality."National reports on the condition of public education are dismal. The condition of man can be classified as civilized or uncivilized."
6.nounA particular state of being."Hypnosis is a peculiar condition of the nervous system. Steps were taken to ameliorate the condition of slavery. Security is defined as the condition of not being threatened. Aging is a condition over which we are powerless."
7.nounThe situation of a person or persons, particularly their social and/or economic class, rank."A man of his condition has no place to make request."
8.verbTo subject to the process of acclimation."I became conditioned to the absence of seasons in San Diego."
9.verbTo subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise."They were conditioning their shins in their karate class."
10.verbTo place conditions or limitations upon.
11.verbTo shape the behaviour of someone to do something.
12.verbTo treat (the hair) with hair conditioner.
13.verbTo contract; to stipulate; to agree.
14.verbTo test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
15.verb(colleges) 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 condition a student who has failed in some branch of study"
16.verbTo impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.