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单词 fitness
释义 fit·ness
I. noun
(-es)
Etymology: fit (III) + -ness
1. : the quality or state of being fit or fitted
 < the physical fitness … of large numbers of people had been impaired by poverty — F.A.Ogg & P.O.Ray >
2. : the condition of being qualified or suitable : eligibility, soundness, capacity
 < subjected to endurance tests to prove their fitness … for the status of manhood — Francis Birtles >
 < the law prescribed that the ordaining bishop should assure himself … of the candidate's fitness in education and morals — G.G.Coulton >
 < officials … should be chosen for their fitness to understand intellectual questions — Zechariah Chafee >
3. : essential rightness or reasonableness : propriety, correctness, appropriateness
 < one observes a nice historical fitness in the fact — H.O.Taylor >
 < no one with a sense of fitness ever docked the tail of a Shetland pony — Ben Riker >
— often used in the phrase fitness of things
 < the sheep … lay quiet enough, having an inborn sense of the fitness of things — John Galsworthy >
 < it does appear to be … inherent in the eternal fitness of things — T.L.Peacock >
II. noun
: the capacity of an organism to survive and transmit its genotype to reproductively fertile 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 or genotypes
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