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CONDITIONED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Physically fit
Example:
exercised daily to keep herself in condition
Synonyms:
conditioned; in condition
Classified under:
Similar:
fit (physically and mentally sound or healthy)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Established by conditioning or learning
Example:
a conditioned response
Synonyms:
conditioned; learned
Classified under:
Domain category:
psychological science; psychology (the science of mental life)
Antonym:
unconditioned (not established by conditioning or learning)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb condition
Context examples:
He's as clever as they make 'em—a full-charged battery of force and vitality, but a quarrelsome, ill-conditioned faddist, and unscrupulous at that. He had gone the length of faking some photographs over the South American business.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The use of a series of integrated steps whereby a dry powder is conditioned by wetting or is melted to form a plasticized mass that with the aid of low shear forces, yields particles possessing characteristic dimensions and density.
(Low Shear Granulation, NCI Thesaurus)
The use of a series of integrated steps whereby a dry powder is conditioned to form a plasticized mass that is forced through a screen and cut into sections, ultimately to yield granules possessing characteristic dimensions and density.
(Extrusion Granulation, NCI Thesaurus)
She expressly conditioned, however, for paying no visits, and would do no more than accompany them to Gray's in Sackville Street, where Elinor was carrying on a negotiation for the exchange of a few old-fashioned jewels of her mother.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
For example, a patient who always feels sick after receiving chemotherapy in a clinic that smells a certain way may be conditioned to feel sick when smelling the same odor in a different place.
(Conditioned response, NCI Dictionary)
The use of a series of integrated steps whereby a dry powder is conditioned by wetting, or is melted, to form a plasticized mass that with the aid of high shear forces yields relatively dense particles.
(High Shear Granulation, NCI Thesaurus)
Hypnopedia, or the ability to learn during sleep, was popularized in the '60s, with for example the dystopia Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, in which individuals are conditioned to their future tasks during sleep. This concept has been progressively abandoned due to a lack of reliable scientific evidence supporting in-sleep learning abilities.
(Learning While Sleeping?, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Scientists have for the first time selectively blocked a conditioned fear memory in humans by using a behavioral technique.
(How Our Memory Works, NIH, US)
Learned behaviors include conditioned behavioral activation and approach responses to the conditioned stimulus odor.
(Olfactory Learning, NCI Thesaurus)
Conditioned taste aversion (CTA) may form part of the mechanisms involved in anorexia and other similar disorders, particularly if associations arise between food and discomfort, or even with negative emotions.
(Researchers identify area of the amygdala involved in taste aversion, University of Granada)
