Crossword clues for precondition
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Precondition \Pre`con*di"tion\, n. A previous or antecedent condition; a preliminary condition.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A requirement which must be satisfied before taking a course of action. vb. (context medicine biology English) To condition in advance
WordNet
n. an assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else [syn: condition, stipulation]
an assumption that is taken for granted [syn: given, presumption]
a condition that is a prerequisite
v. put into the required condition beforehand
Wikipedia
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 guards or 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.
Usage examples of "precondition".
The rejection of the Enlightenment tradition is especially true of the millenarian Christians in the United States, who believe that the restoration of Israeli rule over the entire biblical Kingdom of David is an essential precondition of the Apocalypse.
Of course, there are recorded circumstances of quite extraordinarily happenings in Africa, India, and so on, but in those cases the victim was normally preconditioned for his whole life to accept that a witch doctor or whoever had the power to put a spell on him that could result in his death.
He tried to persuade his colleagues to refuse therapy to hereditary defectives unless they were sterile or sterilized or willing to accept being sterilized as a precondition for receiving therapy.
All the signs are that the stage is being set for a so-called war of liberation in the classical style, and world opinion is being preconditioned to make it difficult for the West to react effectively.
Despite this, in accordance with standard Soviet strategic doctrine, it called for strategic surprise as a precondition for success, and the use of conventional weapons only.
And so it is that finally two radically opposed basic mythologies can be identified in the broad panorama of history: one in which this monstrous precondition of all temporal life is affirmed with a will, and the other, in which it is denied.
The military had persuaded Narmonov to remove it, as a precondition to its own goal of a truly professional force, loyal to the country and the new constitution.
They were now a necessary precondition for government service, education, employment in most fields, and to obtain licenses for, among other things, firearms purchase, parenting, and driving.
This, too, was a part of the preconditioning process—built-in limitations to the use of any and all equipment I carried.
I’ve never seen a spontaneous display of violence against a child when there was no preconditioning behavior in that direction.
But I would guess that it controlled him, perhaps through preconditioning installed long ago.
And he thought, If there are certain preconditions for the belief in magic that makes it possible to use the magic, then maybe those preconditions will inevitably arrange themselves.
If there are certain preconditions for the use of magic, those preconditions will inevitably arrange themselves.
By blindly stepping up the rate of change, the level of novelty, and the extent of choice, we are thoughtlessly tampering with these environmental preconditions of rationality.
Greenberg was able to tell us a bit of what happened with the ancient drive, the preconditions, but of course he didn't know how it worked, except that the speed had to be sufficient to affect the average mass of the universe.