precondition

See also: précondition

English

Alternative forms

• pre-condition

Etymology

From pre- +‎ condition.

Noun

precondition (plural preconditions)

1. A condition that requires satisfaction before taking a course of action.

   A marriage licence is a precondition for a wedding.

   • 2013 November 6, CNN Staff, “Official: Syrian government to attend Syria II without preconditions”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Presidential adviser Bouthaina Shaaban told Russia Today TV on Tuesday that the government would attend without preconditions and with the goal of stopping violence and terrorism in the country, SANA reported.

   • 2023 June 28, Matt Growcoot, “Copyright Office Refuses to ‘Register Works Entirely Generated by AI’”, in PetaPixel‎^[2]:

     “The Office will refuse to register works entirely generated by AI,” says Robert Kasunic of the USCO. “Human authorship is a precondition to copyrightability.”

   • 2023 September 6, Christian Wolmar, “Rail strikes: little prospect of negotiations”, in RAIL, number 991, page 44:

     After a failed attempt by ministers to bounce the union into an agreement by announcing its terms (which included all sorts of union red lines such as drivers having to pay for their own training) in the media rather than over the negotiation table, there is an understandable reluctance on the part of the unions to engage in any discussions unless there are no preconditions.

2. A medical illness, ailment, or adverse condition that exists before an insurance policy takes effect.

Synonyms

• prerequisite

Derived terms

• preconditional

Translations

preexisting requirement

• Armenian: նախապայման (hy) (naxapayman)
• Bulgarian: предварително условие n (predvaritelno uslovie), предпоставка (bg) f (predpostavka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 前提 (zh) (qiántí), 先決條件 / 先决条件 (zh) (xiānjué tiáojiàn)

• Danish: forudsætning c, betingelse (da) c
• Dutch: voorwaarde (nl) f
• Finnish: edellytys (fi), ehto (fi), ennakkoehto
• French: condition préalable f, précondition (fr) f
• Georgian: წინაპირობა (c̣inaṗiroba)
• German: Vorbedingung (de) f, Voraussetzung (de) f
• Greek: προϋπόθεση (el) f (proÿpóthesi)
• Hungarian: előfeltétel (hu)
• Italian: prerequisito (it) m, presupposto (it) m
• Japanese: 前提 (ja) (ぜんてい, zentei), 前提条件 (ぜんていじょうけん, zentei jōken)
• Korean: 전제 조건 (jeonje jogeon)
• Latvian: priekšnoteikums m
• Persian: پیش بایست (piš bâyast), پیش شرط (piš šart)
• Polish: warunek wstępny m
• Portuguese: pré-condição (pt), pré-requisito, prerrequisito
• Russian: предвари́тельное усло́вие n (predvarítelʹnoje uslóvije), (prerequisite) предпосы́лка (ru) f (predposýlka)
• Swedish: förutsättning (sv), betingelse (sv) c
• Turkish: önşart, önkoşul

Verb

precondition (third-person singular simple present preconditions, present participle preconditioning, simple past and past participle preconditioned)

1. (medicine, biology) To condition in advance
   • 1996, C. Weinbrenner et al., “Loss of glycogen during preconditioning is not a prerequisite for protection of the rabbit heart”, in Basic Research in Cardiology‎^[3], volume 91, number 5:

     The hearts were preconditioned by either ischemia or bradykinin or adenosine.