Definition of "fitness " []

• The state or condition of being fit; suitability or appropriateness. (noun)
• Good health or physical condition, especially as the result of exercise and proper nutrition. (noun)
• Biology The extent to which an organism is adapted to or able to produce offspring in a particular environment. (noun)

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• "St. Thomas (II-II, Q. xlvii, a. 8) it is its function to do three things: to take counsel, i.e. to cast about for the means suited in the particular case under consideration to reach the end of any one moral virtue; to judge soundly of the fitness of the means suggested; and, finally, to command their employment."
• "We need not have recourse either to the family names, armorial bearings or cardinalatial titles, to see the fitness of their designations as given in the prophecies."
• "Julie Kucinski in a boot camp fitness class at The Shed"