Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Being in bad condition, or having bad qualities; disordered or disorderly. In geometry, a triangle which has very unequal angles is said to be ill-conditioned.
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Examples
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Craig, the necessity for so many significant digits in some case more than are supported by double precision format seems to me an indication that the problem as posed was ill-conditioned.
A Puzzler, where did Loehle go too far? EliRabett 2010
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'And a very ill-conditioned brute towards any other rider.
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A. A. Pope, of Boston, to arouse the people to an understanding of the burden which their ill-conditioned highways impose upon them.
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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A. A. Pope, of Boston, to arouse the people to an understanding of the burden which their ill-conditioned highways impose upon them.
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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A. A. Pope, of Boston, to arouse the people to an understanding of the burden which their ill-conditioned highways impose upon them.
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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If the owner of the stuff were of the kindly he would say, “Allah will compensate me;” and if he were of the ill-conditioned, he would haunt him with exposure and insult, but would get nothing of him, though he complained of him to the judge.
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When the old merchant heard this ill flouting from the damsel, he was wroth with wrath exceeding beyond which was no proceeding and said to the broker, “O most ill-omened of brokers, thou hast not brought into the market this ill-conditioned wench but to gibe me and make mock of me before the merchants.”
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Yet the boy had nothing sickly or ill-conditioned in his look, but was, on the contrary, a fair and handsome child, with a smiling face, and mild, yet cheerful eye.
The Monastery 2008
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I for a long time, but at last I awoke from my heedlessness and, returning to my senses, I found my wealth had become unwealth and my condition ill-conditioned and all I once hent had left my hand.
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It is certainly not John the Baptist, nor John the Evangelist, nor James the Greater, nor James the Less; he must inevitably be some witling of a Hun, to write such abominable impertinence, or some ill-conditioned, malicious
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