preparation

Meanings

1. The act of preparing or getting ready.
2. The state of being prepared; readiness.
3. That which is prepared.
4. A substance, especially a remedy, that is prepared.
5. A part of any animal body preserved as a specimen.
6. Any of the objects placed between the strings of a prepared piano.
7. The day before the Sabbath or other Jewish feast-day.
8. Devotional exercises introducing an office.
9. The previous introduction, as an integral part of a chord, of a note continued into a succeeding dissonance.

Etymology

From Middle English preparacion, from Middle French preparacion, from Latin praeparatio, praeparationem. Morphologically prepare + -ation.

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