Look up: preparation

1. Preparation
   The activities used by actors to prepare themselves for a performance.
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2. Preparation
   Before starting to prepare the balloon for flight, the pilot should consider the balloon loading (passengers and fuel), the weather and the flight area to determine suitability for flight.
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3. preparation
   [n] - (music) a note that produces a dissonant chord is first heard in a consonant chord 2. [n] - the activity of putting or setting in order in advance of some act or purpose
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4. preparation
   the operations of processing, preserving and packaging of agricultural products Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries • a mixture,solid or liquid,containing a drug Category: Medicine • collectively,mechanical,physical and physico-chemical pro...
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5. Preparation
   Prep`a·ra'tion noun [ French préparation , Latin praeparatio . See Prepare .] 1. The act of preparing or fitting beforehand for a particular purpose, use, service, or condition; previous arrangement or adaptation; a making ...
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6. preparation
   1. <pharmacology> A medicine made ready for use. ... 2. <anatomy, pathology> A specimen made ready and preserved for study. ... Origin: L. Praeparatio ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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7. preparation
   noun (music) a note that produces a dissonant chord is first heard in a consonant chord; `the resolution of one dissonance is often the preparation for another dissonance`
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8. preparation
   noun the activity of putting or setting in order in advance of some act or purpose; `preparations for the ceremony had begun`
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9. Preparation
   • (n.) Accomplishment; qualification. • (n.) The state of being prepared or made ready; preparedness; readiness; fitness; as, a nation in good preparation for war. • (n.) The act of preparing or fitting beforehand for a particular purpose, use, service, or condition; previous arrangem...
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10. preparation
    (L. praeparatio) 1. a medicine made ready for use. 2. an anatomic or pathologic specimen made ready and preserved for study.
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11. Preparation
    In music, preparation is the holding over of a note from one chord into the next chord, where it forms a temporary discord, until resolved in the chord that follows, that is the anticipation of a discordant note in the preceding concord, so that the ear is prepared for the shock.
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12. preparation
    
    • the activity of preparing
    • a substance prepared according to a formula
    • the cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening
    • activity leading to skilled behavior
    
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13. Preparation
    Camera work, stripping, platemaking, and other activities by a trade camera service or printer before press work begins. Also called prep.
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14. preparation
    Type: Term Pronunciation: prep′ă-rā′shŭn Definitions: 1. The act of making or getting ready. 2. Something made ready, as a medicine or other mixture, or a histologic specimen.
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15. Preparation
    (physics) Generally, measuring instruments are meant to get the (pre-)existent value of a physical quantity of a system with as little change of, or interaction with the system as possible. — If a measuring instrument fixes a physical quantity of a physical system for further use (post...
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16. Preparation
    (music) In a nonharmonic tone, `preparation` is, in the move of a pitch or chord from a consonance to a dissonance, the consonant pitch or chord which precedes the dissonance. The move from the dissonance to a consonance is resolution (music). For example, in the following anticipation, the p...
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