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preconditioning
Wiktionary
n. The act of prepare something for a subsequent action vb. (present participle of precondition English)
Wikipedia
Preconditioning occurs when an animal is exposed to a stressor or stimulus in order to prepare it for a later encounter with a similar stressor or stimulus.
For example, in vaccinations, a human is exposed to an artificially weakened virus in order to stimulate the body's immune system to produce antibodies that fight the virus. Then, when the live virus is encountered, the body can vigorously defend against it, already having produced the relevant antibodies. See pre-exposure prophylaxis.
Preconditioning is a concept in numerical linear algebra.
Preconditioning may also refer to:
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Preconditioning (adaptation), a general concept in which an entity is exposed to a form of some stress or stimulus in order to prepare that entity to be more resilient against the stimulus when and if the stimulus is encountered in the future.
- Ischemic preconditioning, an experimental technique for producing resistance to the loss of blood supply to tissues of many types
- Sensory preconditioning, a phenomenon of classical conditioning that demonstrates learning of an association between two conditioned stimuli
- Conditioning in stem cell transplantation before the stem cell transfer.
Usage examples of "preconditioning".
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.