condition (redirected from body condition)

condition

1. an ailment or physical disability

2. Law

a. a declaration or provision in a will, contract, etc., that makes some right or liability contingent upon the happening of some event

b. the event itself

3. Logic a statement whose truth is either required for the truth of a given statement (a necessary condition) or sufficient to guarantee the truth of the given statement (a sufficient condition)

4. Maths Logic a presupposition, esp a restriction on the domain of quantification, indispensable to the proof of a theorem and stated as part of it

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condition [kən′dish·ən]

(mathematics)

The product of the norm of a matrix and of its inverse.

(petroleum engineering)

To change the properties of a drilling mud by introducing additives.