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单词 precondition
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Definition of precondition in English:

precondition

noun priːkənˈdɪʃ(ə)nˌprikənˈdɪʃ(ə)n
  • A condition that must be fulfilled before other things can happen or be done.

    先决条件,前提

    a precondition for peace

    和平的先决条件。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • For instance, liberals in the 18th century advocated more religious freedom but not the right to be an atheist, because a belief in God was seen as a necessary precondition for social life.
    • The necessary precondition for a functioning democracy is not just minimal outright poverty, but a reasonable degree of similarity between the life and life prospects of the citizens.
    • This was a necessary precondition for attacking the power of the drug barons, who controlled extensive areas of the country and whose illegal exports of drugs yielded more capital than the export of coffee.
    • Nothing else will destroy or even greatly weaken the power of the current educational establishment - a necessary precondition for radical improvement in our educational system.
    • It would appear to us that a concern for the fate of humanity - including how and under what physical and mental conditions masses of people live - must be a precondition for advanced art today.
    • At the top of his to-do list is stabilizing the Philadelphia school district's chronically unstable finances, which he describes as the essential precondition for all other reforms.
    • Similarly, Bertha's punishment of Rochester by burning his house and causing his injuries is the necessary precondition for his repentance and reform.
    • Surely a necessary precondition for women participating equally in the structures of power is them actually wanting to do so?
    • This is not because order is not a necessary precondition for teaching and learning; rather it is because there are several other factors that must be addressed in order to improve the quality of education.
    • There are several reasons for the prevalence of the dowry system, but the main one is that it is a necessary precondition for marriage.
    • The first thing clergy can do is to make premarital education a necessary precondition for officiating at a couple's ceremony.
    • These analyses are targeted toward locating a job opening, which is a necessary precondition for negotiating the terms of a subsequent job offer.
    • No longer content with surface vision, Janie is learning to ‘look further,’ a necessary precondition for finding an expressive voice.
    • A belief in it is not only not naïve; it is the essential precondition for civilized society, and our best defense against the arbitrary use of power.
    • According to Ahiakpor, Keynes's greatest error was not understanding that production is a necessary precondition for consumption.
    • Although financial development is not a sufficient condition to strengthen economic growth, it is a necessary condition and hence a precondition for high economic growth.
    • Fast Internet access is an essential precondition for economic modernisation and it needs to be available throughout New Zealand, so that our rural industries can benefit from it along with our cities.
    • Recall that an essential precondition for exchange is a mutual perception of fairness.
    • Liking the name was not the only reason for adopting it, just a necessary precondition for doing so.
    Synonyms
    prerequisite, necessary condition, obligatory condition, essential condition, condition, requirement, necessity, essential, necessary thing, imperative, stipulation, proviso
    Latin sine qua non
    informal must
verb priːkənˈdɪʃ(ə)nˌprikənˈdɪʃ(ə)n
[with object]
  • 1Condition (an action) to happen in a certain way.

    使(行为)按某方式发生,制约(行为)

    enquiries are always preconditioned by cultural assumptions

    探索研究总会受制于文化假定。

    1. 1.1 Condition or influence (a person or animal) by exposing them to stimuli or information prior to the relevant behavioural situation.
      预先调节(人,动物)
      with object and infinitive the anthropologist is not preconditioned to interact with those he studies

      人类学家并非预先就具备与研究对象互动的条件。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • I was preconditioned to detest him when he came to office.
      • Some of this lower expected price may be offset by the seasonal price component associated with preconditioning programs geared toward spring calving and fall weaning programs.
      • It is not easy to break free from the grip of anarchophilia because we are preconditioned to think of the international system in anarchic terms.
      • It might also reduce the problem of predator preconditioning.
      • Under normal circumstances there should be no extra charge for activities such as moving furniture, preconditioning, and routine spot and stain removal.
      • After preconditioning, the pressure-sensitive film was inserted beneath the meniscus, after which the specimens were loaded in compression.
      • The standards cover a range of requirements such as minimum space, preconditioning, and feed and water requirements.
      • The mechanism by which preconditioning confers protection is not well understood.
      • Their intention would be to graze the pasture for the entire season and the pasture establishment expense would be the same whether calves were preconditioned in drylot or on pasture.
      • Now, a three-phase apparatus has been developed to meter, precondition, and classify seed.
      • Gardner et al. found significant feedlot and carcass performance benefits and lower medicine costs from preconditioning.
      • You must precondition yourself so your target selection will be a thoughtless, instinctual act.
      • Thus, under some production scenarios, the price premium found here enables cow-calf producers to profit from preconditioning, whereas, in other cases, it does not.
      • We are preconditioned to believe that a photograph tells the truth.
      • Without preconditioning, most historians, I wager, would buckle under the strain.
  • 2Bring (something) into the desired state for use.

    对(东西)作预处理

    they precondition the incoming air to match the inside air temperature
    Example sentencesExamples
    • For surely such intimacy preconditions the viewer's response and makes it more difficult to assess the work objectively.
    • Subsequent cells were selected at least 5 mm away from any previous force application sites to avoid studying preconditioned cells.
    • Elsewhere, external deficit financing is facing the axe due to loan preconditions the government cannot meet on time.
    • We can produce the ferrets and precondition them to survive in the wild.
    • If the partners engaging in the activity are both of the same gender, there can be no preconditioned dominant-submissive roles.
    • This attitude was acceptable when not much information was available about what makes a tree fail or what factors precondition a tree to fail.
    • After processing, equal numbers of calves were randomly assigned to one of the three preconditioning treatments.
    • You know, what he is doing is preconditioning the potential jurors, or in really simple English, he's tainting the jury pool.
    • Bernard has not been able to satisfy me that precondition number 1 has been met.
    • These tiles were preconditioned by being placed outdoors in a running seawater table for several weeks before their use in the experiment.
    • Each specimen was preconditioned by manually flexing the knee 10 times between full extension and full flexion prior to testing.
    • Because preconditioning programs improve the health and thriftiness of calves, cow-calf producers can expect a price premium because of the improved health of preconditioned calves marketed.
    • To stimulate egg laying in the absence of males, manifolds were preconditioned with males for 24 hr before mated females were placed in the manifold.
    • However, because defense can only be induced with predators, the individuals with induced defenses are preconditioned to the presence of predators.

Definition of precondition in US English:

precondition

nounˌprēkənˈdiSH(ə)nˌprikənˈdɪʃ(ə)n
  • A condition that must be fulfilled before other things can happen or be done.

    先决条件,前提

    a precondition for peace

    和平的先决条件。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Similarly, Bertha's punishment of Rochester by burning his house and causing his injuries is the necessary precondition for his repentance and reform.
    • Liking the name was not the only reason for adopting it, just a necessary precondition for doing so.
    • Surely a necessary precondition for women participating equally in the structures of power is them actually wanting to do so?
    • A belief in it is not only not naïve; it is the essential precondition for civilized society, and our best defense against the arbitrary use of power.
    • This is not because order is not a necessary precondition for teaching and learning; rather it is because there are several other factors that must be addressed in order to improve the quality of education.
    • There are several reasons for the prevalence of the dowry system, but the main one is that it is a necessary precondition for marriage.
    • The necessary precondition for a functioning democracy is not just minimal outright poverty, but a reasonable degree of similarity between the life and life prospects of the citizens.
    • These analyses are targeted toward locating a job opening, which is a necessary precondition for negotiating the terms of a subsequent job offer.
    • Recall that an essential precondition for exchange is a mutual perception of fairness.
    • For instance, liberals in the 18th century advocated more religious freedom but not the right to be an atheist, because a belief in God was seen as a necessary precondition for social life.
    • No longer content with surface vision, Janie is learning to ‘look further,’ a necessary precondition for finding an expressive voice.
    • This was a necessary precondition for attacking the power of the drug barons, who controlled extensive areas of the country and whose illegal exports of drugs yielded more capital than the export of coffee.
    • It would appear to us that a concern for the fate of humanity - including how and under what physical and mental conditions masses of people live - must be a precondition for advanced art today.
    • The first thing clergy can do is to make premarital education a necessary precondition for officiating at a couple's ceremony.
    • Nothing else will destroy or even greatly weaken the power of the current educational establishment - a necessary precondition for radical improvement in our educational system.
    • At the top of his to-do list is stabilizing the Philadelphia school district's chronically unstable finances, which he describes as the essential precondition for all other reforms.
    • Although financial development is not a sufficient condition to strengthen economic growth, it is a necessary condition and hence a precondition for high economic growth.
    • Fast Internet access is an essential precondition for economic modernisation and it needs to be available throughout New Zealand, so that our rural industries can benefit from it along with our cities.
    • According to Ahiakpor, Keynes's greatest error was not understanding that production is a necessary precondition for consumption.
    Synonyms
    prerequisite, necessary condition, obligatory condition, essential condition, condition, requirement, necessity, essential, necessary thing, imperative, stipulation, proviso
verbˌprēkənˈdiSH(ə)nˌprikənˈdɪʃ(ə)n
[with object]
  • 1usually be preconditionedCondition (an action) to happen in a certain way.

    使(行为)按某方式发生,制约(行为)

    inquiries are always preconditioned by cultural assumptions

    探索研究总会受制于文化假定。

    1. 1.1 Condition or influence (a person or animal) by exposing them to stimuli or information prior to the relevant behavioral situation.
      预先调节(人,动物)
      with object and infinitive the anthropologist is not preconditioned to interact with those he studies

      人类学家并非预先就具备与研究对象互动的条件。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • After preconditioning, the pressure-sensitive film was inserted beneath the meniscus, after which the specimens were loaded in compression.
      • We are preconditioned to believe that a photograph tells the truth.
      • Thus, under some production scenarios, the price premium found here enables cow-calf producers to profit from preconditioning, whereas, in other cases, it does not.
      • Their intention would be to graze the pasture for the entire season and the pasture establishment expense would be the same whether calves were preconditioned in drylot or on pasture.
      • It is not easy to break free from the grip of anarchophilia because we are preconditioned to think of the international system in anarchic terms.
      • You must precondition yourself so your target selection will be a thoughtless, instinctual act.
      • The standards cover a range of requirements such as minimum space, preconditioning, and feed and water requirements.
      • The mechanism by which preconditioning confers protection is not well understood.
      • Now, a three-phase apparatus has been developed to meter, precondition, and classify seed.
      • I was preconditioned to detest him when he came to office.
      • Some of this lower expected price may be offset by the seasonal price component associated with preconditioning programs geared toward spring calving and fall weaning programs.
      • Gardner et al. found significant feedlot and carcass performance benefits and lower medicine costs from preconditioning.
      • Without preconditioning, most historians, I wager, would buckle under the strain.
      • It might also reduce the problem of predator preconditioning.
      • Under normal circumstances there should be no extra charge for activities such as moving furniture, preconditioning, and routine spot and stain removal.
  • 2Bring (something) into the desired state for use.

    对(东西)作预处理

    they precondition the incoming air to match the inside air temperature
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Each specimen was preconditioned by manually flexing the knee 10 times between full extension and full flexion prior to testing.
    • You know, what he is doing is preconditioning the potential jurors, or in really simple English, he's tainting the jury pool.
    • We can produce the ferrets and precondition them to survive in the wild.
    • Subsequent cells were selected at least 5 mm away from any previous force application sites to avoid studying preconditioned cells.
    • However, because defense can only be induced with predators, the individuals with induced defenses are preconditioned to the presence of predators.
    • Elsewhere, external deficit financing is facing the axe due to loan preconditions the government cannot meet on time.
    • Bernard has not been able to satisfy me that precondition number 1 has been met.
    • If the partners engaging in the activity are both of the same gender, there can be no preconditioned dominant-submissive roles.
    • To stimulate egg laying in the absence of males, manifolds were preconditioned with males for 24 hr before mated females were placed in the manifold.
    • Because preconditioning programs improve the health and thriftiness of calves, cow-calf producers can expect a price premium because of the improved health of preconditioned calves marketed.
    • These tiles were preconditioned by being placed outdoors in a running seawater table for several weeks before their use in the experiment.
    • After processing, equal numbers of calves were randomly assigned to one of the three preconditioning treatments.
    • For surely such intimacy preconditions the viewer's response and makes it more difficult to assess the work objectively.
    • This attitude was acceptable when not much information was available about what makes a tree fail or what factors precondition a tree to fail.
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