Meaning

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

• 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."

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

• The health status of a medical patient.

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

• 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."

• 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."

• 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."

Meaning

• To subject to the process of acclimation.

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

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

  "They were conditioning their shins in their karate class."

• To place conditions or limitations upon.

• To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.

• To treat (the hair) with hair conditioner.

• To contract; to stipulate; to agree.

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

• (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"

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