Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The state or condition of being fit; suitability or appropriateness.
- noun Good health, especially good physical condition resulting from exercise and proper nutrition.
- noun Biology The extent to which an organism is able to produce offspring in a particular environment.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being fit or suitable; suitableness; adaptedness or adaptability of one thing to another; hence, congruity; befittingness; meetness: as, the fitness of things; the fitness of a thing for the purpose intended.
- noun The state of being fitted or qualified; requisite capacity; qualification: as, he lacks fitness for the place.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being fit
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The condition of being
fit ,suitable orappropriate . - noun The cultivation of an attractive and/or healthy physique.
- noun UK, slang The condition of being
attractive ,fanciable orbeautiful .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being qualified
- noun the quality of being suitable
- noun good physical condition; being in shape or in condition
- noun fitness to traverse the seas
Etymologies
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Examples
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Protein fitness is defined by the properties of organic chemicals, which may indeed be (as you contend) the evidence of telic forethought, but that is entirely outside the scope of the subject weasel is addressing.
The Weasel Thread 2009
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The doctrine of evolution uses the term fitness in a hard and stern sense.
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There are a whole host of other errors in this i09 article, and I'll just pick this one: It does not use the term fitness correctly.
Bug Girl's Blog 2009
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The biological concept of "fitness" is what engineers often call an "error function."
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"The term fitness includes emotional, social, mental, nutritional and physical fitness.
unknown title 2009
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Playing brain fitness games CogniFit, InSight, Lumosity
Technology Product News: Read reviews and shop for gadgets - USATODAY.com 2010
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I've been trying out "brain fitness" software and Web-based offerings that aim to bolster cognitive skills through games and mental exercises: The CogniFit Personal Coach promises to "slow down cognitive decline."
Playing brain fitness games CogniFit, InSight, Lumosity 2010
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Lumosity suggested a brain fitness program for me consisting of 40 sessions of five games each.
Playing brain fitness games CogniFit, InSight, Lumosity 2010
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This trip was shrouded in secrecy – players included – before it took place and it has become a monumental source of embarrassment since it was revealed that Jimmy Anderson damaged a rib in a boxing bout during the trip and that his fitness is in doubt ahead of the first Test in Brisbane.
Pre-Ashes boot camps: team-building fun or a waste of time? David Hopps 2010
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Ed Baig has trying out "brain fitness" software and Web-based offerings that aim to bolster cognitive skills through games and mental ...
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brtom commented on the word fitness
"Knowing the perfect fitness and equanimity of things, while they discuss I am silent, and go bathe and admire myself." Whitman, Song of Myself, 3
January 4, 2008