requirement

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Etymology

require +‎ -ment

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /ɹɨˈkwɑjɚmɨnt/, /ɹɨˈkwɑj̆ɹmɨnt/

Noun

requirement (plural requirements)

1. A necessity or prerequisite; something required or obligatory.
2. Something asked.
3. (engineering) A statement (in domain specific terms) which specifies a verifiable constraint on an implementation that it shall undeniably meet or (a) be deemed unacceptable, or (b) result in implementation failure, or (c) result in system failure.

Synonyms

• (prerequisite): condition, prerequisite, necessity

Derived terms

• functional requirement
• requirements engineering
• requirements analysis

Translations

necessity

• Arabic: مطلب (ar) (máTlab) m
• Armenian: պահանջագիր (hy) (pahanǰagir), պահանջմունք (hy) (pahanǰmunkʿ), պետք (hy) (petkʿ)
• Catalan: requisit (ca) m, menester (ca) m, exigència (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 要求 (cmn) (yāoqiú), 需求 (cmn) (xūqiú)

• Czech: podmínka (cs) f
• Dutch: vereiste (nl), plicht (nl) f, voorwaarde (nl) f
• Finnish: vaatimus (fi)
• French: exigence (fr) f, besoin (fr) m
• German: Anforderung (de) f
• Hindi: ज़रूरत (hi) (zarūrat) f
• Hungarian: követelmény (hu)
• Italian: requisito (it) m

• Japanese: 要求 (ja) (ようきゅう, yōkyū)
• Korean: 요구 (ko) (yogu) (要求 (ko))
• Latvian: prasība f
• Norwegian: krav (no)
• Persian: ضرورت (fa) (zarurat)
• Portuguese: exigência (pt) f, requisito (pt) m
• Romanian: condiție (ro) f
• Russian: необходимость (ru) (neobxodímost’) f , требование (ru) (trébovanije) n 
• Spanish: exigencia (es) f, requisito (es) m
• Swedish: krav (sv)
• Urdu: ضرورت (ur) (zarūrat) f
• Vietnamese: yêu cầu (vi) (要求 (vi))

something asked

• Czech: požadavek (cs) m
• Dutch: vereiste (nl), gevraagde (nl) n
• French: demande (fr)
• Latvian: lūgums m

• Portuguese: pedido (pt)
• Romanian: cerință (ro) f
• Russian: требование (ru) (trébovanije) n 

engineering: constraint

• Dutch: voorwaarde (nl) f