requirement

English

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Etymology

require +‎ -ment

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /ɹɨˈkwɑjɚmɨnt/, /ɹɨˈkwɑj̆ɹmɨnt/

Noun

requirement (plural requirements)

1. A necessity or prerequisite; something required or obligatory.
2. Something asked.
3. (engineering) A statement (in domain specific terms) which specifies a verifiable constraint on an implementation that it shall undeniably meet or (a) be deemed unacceptable, or (b) result in implementation failure, or (c) result in system failure.

Synonyms

• (prerequisite): condition, prerequisite, necessity

Derived terms

• functional requirement
• requirements engineering
• requirements analysis

Translations

necessity

Arabic: مطلب (ar) (máTlab) m. Armenian: պահանջագիր (hy), պահանջմունք (hy), պետք (hy) Catalan: requisit (ca) m., menester (ca) m., exigència (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 要求 (zh) (yāoqiú), 需求 (zh) (xūqiú) Czech: podmínka (cs) f. Dutch: vereiste (nl), plicht (nl) f., voorwaarde (nl) f. Finnish: vaatimus (fi) French: exigence (fr) f., besoin (fr) m. German: Anforderung (de) f. Hindi: ज़रूरत (hi) (zarūrat) f. Hungarian: szükséges (hu) Italian: requisito (it) m.

Japanese: 要求 (ja) (ようきゅう, yōkyū) Korean: 요구 (ko) (yogu) (要求 (ko)) Latvian: prasība f. Norwegian: krav (no) Persian: ضرورت (fa) (zarurat) Portuguese: exigência (pt) f., requisito (pt) m. Romanian: condiție (ro) f. Russian: необходимость (ru) (neobxodímost’) f., требование (ru) (trébovanije) n. Spanish: exigencia (es) f., requisito (es) m. Swedish: krav (sv) Urdu: ضرورت (ur) (zarūrat) f. Vietnamese: yêu cầu (vi) (要求 (vi))

something asked

Czech: požadavek (cs) m. Dutch: vereiste (nl), gevraagde (nl) n. French: demande (fr) Latvian: lūgums m.

Portuguese: pedido (pt) Romanian: cerință (ro) f. Russian: требование (ru) (trébovanije) n.

engineering: constraint

Dutch: voorwaarde (nl) f.