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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 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. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Rather than luring or conscripting more young people into the military and spending incomprehensible amounts of money to arm them, we should do what is right and rational: sit down with our "enemies," without preconditions, and talk. The commitments usually set unattainable goals as a precondition for their termination. The decade following the end of the Cold War witnessed some peaceful transitions to democracy in countries where the preconditions for democracy were in place. |
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