A condition that must exist or be established before something can occur or be considered; a prerequisite.
tr.v., -tioned, -tion·ing, -tions.To condition, train, or accustom in advance.
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A condition that must exist or be established before something can occur or be considered; a prerequisite.
tr.v., -tioned, -tion·ing, -tions.To condition, train, or accustom in advance.
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Preparation of 6 to 8 months old range-reared, recently weaned beef calves for entry into a feedlot and an intensive fattening program. Includes castration, dehorning and branding 3 weeks before and all vaccinations 2 weeks before weaning, and weaning 3 to 4 weeks before sale or entry to the feedlot. During this postweaning period the calf should become accustomed to feedlot feeds and conditions.
In logic a precondition is a condition that has to be met before a main argument can have any value.
In computer programming, a precondition is a condition or predicate that must always be true just prior to the execution of some section of code or before an operation in a formal specification.
If a precondition is violated, the effect of the section of code becomes undefined and thus may or may not carry out its intended work. Security problems can arise due to incorrect preconditions.
Often, preconditions are simply included in the documentation of the affected section of code. Preconditions are sometimes tested using assertions within the code itself, and some languages have specific syntactic constructions for doing so.
For example: the factorial is only defined for integers greater than or equal to zero. So a program that calculates the factorial of an input number would have preconditions that the number be an integer and that it be greater than or equal to zero.
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Dansk (Danish)
n. - forhåndsbetingelse
v. tr. - forberede
Nederlands (Dutch)
eerste vereiste, voorwaarde vooraf
Français (French)
n. - condition requise
v. tr. - (Psych) conditionner
Deutsch (German)
n. - Vorbedingung
v. - einstellen, vorbereiten
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (απαραίτητη) προϋπόθεση
v. - προδιαθέτω
Italiano (Italian)
requisito indispensabile
Português (Portuguese)
n. - pré-condição (f)
v. - precondicionar
Русский (Russian)
предварительное условие
Español (Spanish)
n. - condición previa
v. tr. - precondicionar
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - förhandsvillkor
v. - förbehandla, göra färdig
中文(简体) (Chinese (Simplified))
先决条件, 事先准备, 事先训练
中文(繁體) (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 先決條件
v. tr. - 事先準備, 事先訓練
한국어 (Korean)
n. - 견제[선결]조건
v. tr. - 미리 조정하다
日本語 (Japanese)
v. - あらかじめ調整する
n. - 前提条件
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) شرط مسبق (فعل) يشرط مسبقا
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - תנאי מוקדם
v. tr. - הביא מראש למצב הרצוי
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