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Condition

The state of something with regard to its appearance, quality, or working order
The wiring is in good condition
The bridge is in an extremely dangerous condition

Factor

A circumstance, fact, or influence that contributes to a result
His skill was a factor in ensuring that so much was achieved
She worked fast, conscious of the time factor

Condition

The circumstances or factors affecting the way in which people live or work, especially with regard to their well-being
Harsh working conditions

Factor

A number or quantity that when multiplied with another produces a given number or expression
An amount that exceeds it by a factor of 1000 or more

Condition

A situation that must exist before something else is possible or permitted
All personnel should comply with this policy as a condition of employment
For a member to borrow money, three conditions have to be met
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Factor

A level on a scale of measurement.

Condition

Have a significant influence on or determine (the manner or outcome of something)
National choices are conditioned by the international political economy

Factor

Any of a number of substances in the blood, mostly identified by numerals, which are involved in coagulation.

Condition

Bring (something) into the desired state for use
A product for conditioning leather

Factor

An agent who buys and sells goods on commission
His father was chief factor for the Hudson's Bay Company
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Condition

Apply a conditioner to (the hair)
I condition my hair regularly

Factor

Another term for factorize
Last year researchers factored a number 155 digits long

Condition

Set prior requirements on (something) before it can occur or be done
Congressmen have sought to limit and condition military and economic aid

Factor

(of a company) sell (its invoices) to a factor
They collected rents while he factored these forfeited estates

Condition

A mode or state of being
We bought a used boat in excellent condition.

Factor

One that actively contributes to an accomplishment, result, or process
"Surprise is the greatest factor in war" (Tom Clancy).

Condition

Conditions Existing circumstances
Economic conditions have improved. The news reported the latest weather conditions.

Factor

One who acts for someone else; an agent.

Condition

(Archaic) Social position; rank.

Factor

One who purchases accounts receivable at a discount.

Condition

A state of health
Has the patient's condition deteriorated?.

Factor

(Mathematics) One of two or more quantities that divides a given quantity without a remainder. For example, 2 and 3 are factors of 6; a and b are factors of ab.

Condition

A state of physical fitness
Have you exercised enough to get back into condition?.

Factor

A quantity by which a stated quantity is multiplied or divided, so as to indicate an increase or decrease in a measurement
The rate increased by a factor of ten.

Condition

A disease or physical ailment
A heart condition.

Factor

A gene. No longer in technical usage.

Condition

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

Factor

(Physiology) A substance that functions in a specific biochemical reaction or bodily process, such as blood coagulation.

Condition

One that restricts or modifies another; a qualification
I'll make you a promise but with one condition.

Factor

To determine or indicate explicitly the factors of
If you factor 70, you get 2, 5, and 7.

Condition

(Grammar) The dependent clause of a conditional sentence; protasis.

Factor

To engage in purchasing accounts receivable at a discount.

Condition

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

Factor

(obsolete) A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization.
The factor of the trading post bought the furs.

Condition

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

Factor

An agent or representative.

Condition

The event itself.

Factor

(legal)

Condition

To make dependent on a condition or conditions
Use of the cabin is conditioned on your keeping it clean.

Factor

A commission agent.

Condition

To stipulate as a condition
“He only conditioned that the marriage should not take place before his return” (Jane Austen).

Factor

A person or business organization that provides money for another's new business venture; one who finances another's business.

Condition

To cause to be in a certain condition; shape or influence
“Our modern conceptions of historiography [are] conditioned by Western intellectual traditions” (Carol Meyers).

Factor

A business organization that lends money on accounts receivable or buys and collects accounts receivable.

Condition

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

Factor

One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result.
The greatest factor in the decision was the need for public transportation.
The economy was a factor in this year's budget figures.

Condition

To render fit for work or use
Spent weeks conditioning the old car.

Factor

(mathematics) Any of various objects multiplied together to form some whole.
3 is a factor of 12, as are 2, 4 and 6.
The factors of the Klein four-group are both cyclic of order 2.

Condition

To improve the physical fitness of (the body, for example), as through repeated sessions of strenuous physical activity.

Factor

(causal analysis) Influence; a phenomenon that affects the nature, the magnitude, and/or the timing of a consequence.
The launch temperature was a factor of the Challenger disaster.

Condition

(Psychology) To cause (an organism) to respond in a specific manner to a previously unrelated stimulus, as in operant conditioning or classical conditioning.

Factor

(economics) A resource used in the production of goods or services, a factor of production.

Condition

To treat (the air in a room, for example) by air-conditioning.

Factor

(Scotland) A steward or bailiff of an estate.

Condition

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

Factor

(transitive) To find all the factors of (a number or other mathematical object) (the objects that divide it evenly).

Condition

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

Factor

To be a product of other objects.

Condition

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.

Factor

To sell a debt or debts to an agent (the factor) to collect.

Condition

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

Factor

One who transacts business for another; an agent; a substitute; especially, a mercantile agent who buys and sells goods and transacts business for others in commission; a commission merchant or consignee. He may be a home factor or a foreign factor. He may buy and sell in his own name, and he is intrusted with the possession and control of the goods; and in these respects he differs from a broker.
My factor sends me word, a merchant's fledThat owes me for a hundred tun of wine.

Condition

The health status of a medical patient.
My aunt couldn’t walk up the stairs in her condition.

Factor

A steward or bailiff of an estate.

Condition

A certain abnormal state of health; a malady or sickness.

Factor

One of the elements or quantities which, when multiplied together, form a product.

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.

Factor

One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result; a constituent; a contributory cause.
The materal and dynamical factors of nutrition.

Condition

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.

Factor

To resolve (a quantity) into its factors.

Condition

(obsolete) 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 requests.

Factor

Anything that contributes causally to a result;
A number of factors determined the outcome

Condition

To subject to the process of acclimation.
I became conditioned to the absence of seasons in San Diego.

Factor

An abstract part of something;
Jealousy was a component of his character
Two constituents of a musical composition are melody and harmony
The grammatical elements of a sentence
A key factor in her success
Humor: an effective ingredient of a speech

Condition

To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.
They were conditioning their shins in their karate class.

Factor

Any of the numbers (or symbols) that form a product when multiplied together

Condition

To make dependent on a condition to be fulfilled; to make conditional on.

Factor

One of two or more integers that can be exactly divided into another integer;
What are the 4 factors of 6?

Condition

(transitive) To place conditions or limitations upon.

Factor

A businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission

Condition

To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.
The children were conditioned to speak up if they had any disagreements.

Factor

An independent variable in statistics

Condition

(transitive) To treat (the hair) with hair conditioner.

Factor

(genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity;
Genes were formerly called factors

Condition

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

Factor

Resolve into factors;
A quantum computer can factor the number 15

Condition

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

Condition

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

Condition

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

Condition

Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength, etc.; predicament; rank; position, estate.
I am in my conditionA prince, Miranda; I do think, a king.
And O, what man's condition can be worseThan his whom plenty starves and blessings curse?
The new conditions of life.

Condition

Essential quality; property; attribute.
It seemed to us a condition and property of divine powers and beings to be hidden and unseen to others.

Condition

Temperament; disposition; character.
The condition of a saint and the complexion of a devil.

Condition

That which must exist as the occasion or concomitant of something else; that which is requisite in order that something else should take effect; an essential qualification; stipulation; terms specified.
I had as lief take her dowry with this condition, to be whipped at the high cross every morning.
Many are apt to believe remission of sins, but they believe it without the condition of repentance.

Condition

A clause in a contract, or agreement, which has for its object to suspend, to defeat, or in some way to modify, the principal obligation; or, in case of a will, to suspend, revoke, or modify a devise or bequest. It is also the case of a future uncertain event, which may or may not happen, and on the occurrence or non-occurrence of which, the accomplishment, recission, or modification of an obligation or testamentary disposition is made to depend.

Condition

To make terms; to stipulate.
Pay me back my credit,And I'll condition with ye.

Condition

To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.
To think of a thing is to condition.

Condition

To invest with, or limit by, conditions; to burden or qualify by a condition; to impose or be imposed as the condition of.
Seas, that daily gain upon the shore,Have ebb and flow conditioning their march.

Condition

To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
It was conditioned between Saturn and Titan, that Saturn should put to death all his male children.

Condition

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; as, to condition a student who has failed in some branch of study.

Condition

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

Condition

Train; acclimate.

Condition

A state at a particular time;
A condition (or state) of disrepair
The current status of the arms negotiations

Condition

A mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing;
The human condition

Condition

An assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else

Condition

(usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement;
The contract set out the conditions of the lease
The terms of the treaty were generous

Condition

The state of (good) health (especially in the phrases `in condition' or `in shape' or `out of condition' or `out of shape')

Condition

Information that should be kept in mind when making a decision;
Another consideration is the time it would take

Condition

The procedure that is varied in order to estimate a variable's effect by comparison with a control condition

Condition

Establish a conditioned response

Condition

Train by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control;
Parents must discipline their children
Is this dog trained?

Condition

Specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement;
The will stipulates that she can live in the house for the rest of her life
The contract stipulates the dates of the payments

Condition

Put into a better state;
He conditions old cars

Condition

Apply conditioner to in order to make smooth and shiny;
I condition my hair after washing it

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