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fitness - 5 dictionary results

fit⋅ness

[fit-nis]
–noun
1. health.
2. capability of the body of distributing inhaled oxygen to muscle tissue during increased physical effort.
3. Also called Darwinian fitness. Biology.
a. the genetic contribution of an individual to the next generation's gene pool relative to the average for the population, usually measured by the number of offspring or close kin that survive to reproductive age.
b. the ability of a population to maintain or increase its numbers in succeeding generations.

Origin:
1570–80; fit 1 + -ness
fit·ness   (fĭt'nĭs)   
n.  
  1. The state or condition of being fit; suitability or appropriateness.
  2. Good health or physical condition, especially as the result of exercise and proper nutrition.
  3. Biology The extent to which an organism is adapted to or able to produce offspring in a particular environment.

Fitness

Fit"ness\, n. The state or quality of being fit; as, the fitness of measures or laws; a person's fitness for office.
Language Translation for : fitness
Spanish: buena forma,
German: die Fitness,
Japanese: 健康(であること)

Main Entry: fit·ness
Pronunciation: 'fit-n&s
Function: noun
: the capacity of an organism to survive and transmit its genotype to reproductivelyfertile offspring as compared to competing organisms; also : the contribution of an allele or genotype to the gene pool of subsequent generations as compared to that of other alleles orgenotypes

fitness fit·ness (fĭt'nĭs)
n.

  1. The state or condition of being physically sound and healthy, especially as the result of exercise and proper nutrition.
  2. A state of general mental and physical well-being.
  3. The state of being suitably adapted to an environment.

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