Condition vs Modification - What's the difference?
condition | modification | Related terms |
A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
A requirement, term or requisite.
(legal) 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.
The state or quality.
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A particular state of being.
(obsolete) The situation of a person or persons, particularly their social and/or economic class, rank.
To subject to the process of acclimation.
To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.
To place conditions or limitations upon.
* Tennyson
To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.
To treat (the hair) with hair conditioner.
To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
* Sir Walter Raleigh
To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
(US, colleges, transitive) 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 impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.
* Sir W. Hamilton
the act or result of modifying or the condition of being modified
an alteration or adjustment to something
* Jim's modification to the radio's tuning resulted in clearer sound.
a change to an organism as a result of its environment that is not transmissable to offspring
* Due to his sunbathing, Jim's body experienced modifications : he got a tan.
(linguistics) a change to a word when it is borrowed by another language
* The Chinese word "kòu tóu" had a modification made to become the English "kowtow" .
(linguistics) the change undergone by a word when used in a construction (for instance am'' => '' 'm'' in ''I'm )
Condition is a related term of modification.
As nouns the difference between condition and modification
is that condition is a logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses the phrase can either be true or false while modification is the act or result of modifying or the condition of being modified.As a verb condition
is to subject to the process of acclimation.condition
English
Noun
(en noun)- A man of his condition has no place to make request.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "condition")Synonyms
* (the health or state of something) fettleDerived terms
* conditional * condition subsequent * human condition * in condition * interesting condition * mint condition * necessary condition * precondition * statement of condition * sufficient conditionVerb
(en verb)- I became conditioned to the absence of seasons in San Diego.
- They were conditioning their shins in their karate class.
- Seas, that daily gain upon the shore, / Have ebb and flow conditioning their march.
- Pay me back my credit, / And I'll condition with ye.
- It was conditioned between Saturn and Titan, that Saturn should put to death all his male children.
- (McElrath)
- to condition a student who has failed in some branch of study
- To think of a thing is to condition .