Sufficient Condition Definition

noun
An antecedent whose validity entails the validity of the consequent.
Webster's New World
Something whose existence or occurrence by itself guarantees that a given thing will exist or occur.
Webster's New World
(logic) A statement P in relation to statement Q such that P implies Q.
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Noun

Singular:
sufficient condition
Plural:
sufficient conditions

Sufficient Condition Sentence Examples

  • In accordance with the principles of energetics, any change which involves a decrease in the total available energy of the system will tend to occur, and thus the necessary and sufficient condition for the production of electromotive force is that the available energy of the system should decrease when the current flows.

  • The vanishing of the invariants i and j is the necessary and sufficient condition to ensure the quartic having three equal roots.

  • A necessary and sufficient condition of equilibrium is therefore that the value of the potential energy should be stationary for infinitesimal variations of the co-ordinates.

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SSUSUF

Words Ending With

NONION

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