fitnesses
- 1Plural of fitness.
Researchers compared the fitnesses of several bacterial strains under stress.
The model predicts the relative fitnesses of the gene variants as the climate changes.
Note
A plural the base noun rarely needs: fitness is usually uncountable, so the -es form appears mainly where separate values are being compared. Evolutionary biology is its natural home. There, fitness measures an organism's or species' success in finding a mate and producing offspring, and competing strains or genotypes each have their own. For suitability or physique, levels of fitness usually reads more naturally.
fitnesses is a form of fitness
fitness, noun: The practice of building and keeping a healthy or attractive body through exercise. Full entry
- Forms
- fitnessfitnesses plural
- Spelling
- fitness → fitnesses: add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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