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1. Meaning 1 · noun

   A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.

2. Meaning 2 · noun

   A 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. Meaning 3 · noun

   A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal obligation in some way.

4. Meaning 4 · noun

   The health status of a medical patient.

   “My aunt couldn't walk up the stairs in her condition.”

5. Meaning 5 · noun

   The 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. Meaning 6 · noun

   A 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. Meaning 7 · noun

   The 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. Meaning 8 · verb

   To subject to the process of acclimation.

   “I became conditioned to the absence of seasons in San Diego.”

9. Meaning 9 · verb

   To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.

   “They were conditioning their shins in their karate class.”

10. Meaning 10 · verb

    To place conditions or limitations upon.

11. Meaning 11 · verb

    To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.

12. Meaning 12 · verb

    To treat (the hair) with hair conditioner.

13. Meaning 13 · verb

    To contract; to stipulate; to agree.

14. Meaning 14 · verb

    To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).

15. Meaning 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. Meaning 16 · verb

    To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.

How this word is used

• General “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.”
• General “My aunt couldn't walk up the stairs in her condition.”
• General “National reports on the condition of public education are dismal.   The condition of man can be classified as civilized or uncivilized.”
• General “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.”
• General “A man of his condition has no place to make request.”
• Everyday “I became conditioned to the absence of seasons in San Diego.”
• General “They were conditioning their shins in their karate class.”
• General “to condition a student who has failed in some branch of study”

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