prerequisite

  1. Adjective.  required as a prior condition of something else; necessary or indispensable.
  2. Noun.  Something that must be gained in order to gain something else.
  3. Noun.  In education, a course or topic that must be completed before another course or topic can be started. May be colloquially referred to as a '''prereq'''.

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