REQUIREMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does requirement mean? 

• REQUIREMENT (noun)
  The noun REQUIREMENT has 3 senses:

1. required activity

2. anything indispensable

3. something that is required in advance

  Familiarity information: REQUIREMENT used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REQUIREMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Required activity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

demand; requirement

Context example:

there were many demands on his time

Hypernyms ("requirement" is a kind of...):

duty; obligation; responsibility (the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force)

Derivation:

require (consider obligatory; request and expect)

require (require as useful, just, or proper)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Anything indispensable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

essential; necessary; necessity; requirement; requisite

Context example:

a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained

Hypernyms ("requirement" is a kind of...):

thing (a separate and self-contained entity)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "requirement"):

desideratum (something desired as a necessity)

must (a necessary or essential thing)

need; want (anything that is necessary but lacking)

Derivation:

require (have need of)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Something that is required in advance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

prerequisite; requirement

Context example:

Latin was a prerequisite for admission

Hypernyms ("requirement" is a kind of...):

duty; obligation; responsibility (the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "requirement"):

precondition (a condition that is a prerequisite)

academic requirement (a requirement for admission to or completion of an academic program)

essential condition; sine qua non (a prerequisite)

 Context examples 

Issue associated with the requirement for software to fulfill its function within an intended use or application.

(Application Program Issue Associated with Medical Device, Food and Drug Administration)

The final requirement is that it has enough mass for its own gravity to pull it into a roughly spherical shape.

(ESO Telescope Reveals What Could be the Smallest Dwarf Planet Yet in the Solar System, ESO)

Iodine requirements increase during pregnancy, and the fetus depends on this mineral to make thyroid hormone and to ensure normal brain development.

(Iodine deficiency may reduce pregnancy chances, National Institutes of Health)

Some of them, such as the requirements for iron and calcium, change as your child ages.

(Child Nutrition, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

Only applicable to devices not subject to the requirements under 21 CFR 801.437.

(Not Made with Natural Rubber Latex, Food and Drug Administration)

A characteristic or requirement that a subject must meet to participate in a study.

(Performed Inclusion Criterion, NCI Thesaurus)

This is equivalent to meets requirements or specifications.

(Pass, Food and Drug Administration)

"We need to understand what the variability is between people before we can consider starting to set different requirements in diets," Lemay said.

(Humans More Unique than Expected When It Comes to Digesting Fatty Meals, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

There are two main isoforms of the protein, which differ in their calcium requirement for activation.

(Calpain, NCI Thesaurus)

Patients in whom some, but not all, the criteria for partial response are fulfilled are classified as minimal response (MR), provided the remaining criteria satisfy the requirements for minimal response.

(Minimal Response of Multiple Myeloma, NCI Thesaurus)