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prerequisite

adj
/pɹiːˈɹɛkwɪzɪt/UK/pɹiˈɹɛkwəzət/US

Etymology

From pre- + requisite.

  1. derived from requīsītus
  2. formed as prerequisite — “pre- + requisite”

Definitions

  1. Required as a prior condition of something else

    Required as a prior condition of something else; necessary or indispensable.

    • The prerequisite warm-up to the match was ignored.
    • A good command of Spanish is prerequisite for enrolling in this course.

  2. Something that is required as necessary or indispensable, or as a prior condition of…

    Something that is required as necessary or indispensable, or as a prior condition of something else.

    • A degree is a prerequisite for entry into this profession.
    • Only a full-scale analysis of the origin and development of our sensations and ideas can provide this knowledge; so Hartley's associationist psychology becomes the prerequisite for moral knowledge.
    • If you examine the prerequisites list, you will notice it does not include bootstrapper packages for the Office 2003 PIAs.

  3. A course or topic that must be completed before another course or topic can be started.

    • Algebra is typically a prerequisite for physics.

The neighborhood

Derived

non-prerequisite, nonprerequisite

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at prerequisite. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at prerequisite. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at prerequisite

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA