precondition

1. 1.

   put into the required condition beforehand

   Broaderfix

Other forms of precondition

plural

preconditions·

past tense

preconditioned·

present participle

preconditioning·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about precondition

What does precondition mean?

precondition means "an assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in precondition?

precondition has 4 syllables: pre-con-dit-ion. The stress falls on "dit". In IPA it is /ˌpɹikənˈdɪʃən/.

What is another word for precondition?

Close synonyms include condition, stipulation, given, presumption. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is precondition a common word?

precondition is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with precondition?

11 words rhyme with precondition. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.