condition

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A state or quality.

   “National reports on the condition of public education are dismal.”

   “The condition of man can be classified as civilized or uncivilized.”

   “Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.”

   “A wave simulator in the tank can re-enact tsunamis and northeasters, and imitate wave conditions from midocean.”

2. (countable, uncountable)A state or quality.

   “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.”

3. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)A state or quality.

   “A man of his condition has no place to make requests.”

4. (countable, uncountable)A state or quality.

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

   “If the visual attention sequence of children with autism and TD children varied depending on the condition, we could argue that the inclusion of objects in the environment influences the visual attention patterns of both groups.”

5. (countable, uncountable)A state or quality.

   “While the defense lawyers have likened the condition to the post traumatic stress disorders afflicting war veterans and battered women, which have been used in other insanity defense cases, they have said that they know of no previous trials when a "black rage" defense has been raised.”

6. (countable, uncountable)A requirement.

   “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.”

7. (countable, uncountable)A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
8. (countable, uncountable)A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal obligation in some way.

verb

1. To subject to the process of acclimation.

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

   “Heat pumps condition the air on the first floor.”

2. To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.

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

3. To make dependent on a condition to be fulfilled; to make conditional on.
4. (transitive)To place conditions or limitations upon.

   “Yet seas that daily gain upon the shore / Have ebb and flow conditioning their march, / And slow and sure comes up the golden year.”

5. To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.

   “The children were conditioned to speak up if they had any disagreements.”

6. (transitive)To treat, especially hair with hair conditioner.

   “Experiments on steep inclines in the United States showed that washing the rails with a detergent to remove oil and grease resulted in a marked improvement; but conditioning the rails with a special neutralising chemical completely eliminated slipping on a bank on which it was so common as to necessitate restriction of trainloads.”

7. (transitive)To contract; to stipulate; to agree.

   “[P]ay me back my credit, / And I'll condition wi'ye.”

   “[I]t was conditioned betweene Saturne and Titan, that Saturne being a yonger brother, and raigning (for his owne life), by Titans permiſſion, he ſhould put to death all his male children, leaſt the Titans might be interrupted by any of them in their ſucceſſion; which agreement becauſe Saturne performed in his firſt borne, it is fained that Saturne deuoured his owne children.”

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

   “divers parcel of silk conditioned or assayed”

9. (US, 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 condition a student who has failed in some branch of study”

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

    “"To think is thus to condition," because it is to know this or that object, and this or that object in a particular mode or condition.”