condition: meaning and definitions

A mode or state of being: "The Organization Man survives as a modern classic because it captures a permanent part of our social condition” ( Robert J. Samuelson). See Synonyms at state.

A state of health.

A state of readiness or physical fitness.

A disease or physical ailment: a heart condition.

Social position; rank.

One that is indispensable to the appearance or occurrence of another; prerequisite: Compatibility is a condition of a successful marriage.

One that restricts or modifies another; a qualification.

Existing circumstances: Conditions in the office made concentration impossible.

Grammar The dependent clause of a conditional sentence; protasis.

Logic A proposition on which another proposition depends; the antecedent of a conditional proposition.

Law A provision making the effect of a legal instrument contingent on the occurrence of an uncertain future event.

Law The event itself.

An unsatisfactory grade given to a student, serving notice that deficiencies can be made up by the completion of additional work.

Obsolete Disposition; temperament.

To make dependent on a condition or conditions.

To stipulate as a condition.

To render fit for work or use.

To accustom (oneself or another) to; adapt: had to condition herself to long hours of hard work; conditioned the troops to marches at high altitudes.

To air-condition.

To give the unsatisfactory grade of condition to.

Psychology To cause an organism to respond in a specific manner to a conditioned stimulus in the absence of an unconditioned stimulus.

To replace moisture or oils in (hair, for example) by use of a therapeutic product.