0 a rule that must be followed or something that must be done -- 规定，约定；明确的要求
Is there any stipulation concerning the number of people attending the conference? 参加会议的人数方面有什么明确的要求吗？
[ + that ] The only stipulation is that candidates must be over the age of 35. 唯一的规定是候选人必须年满35岁。
This explain why grammatical words are generally unstressed, a fact that requires stipulation in other models.
Under the mini-grammars view, this would simply be a stipulation imposed on the multiple grammars of one language.
The stipulation of the meta-composition being that the composition articulates a process that yields a musical result that is structurally different in each instantiation.
This stipulation, however, is fraught with empirical problems.
Although, by stipulation, there is little inherent ideological controversy over program goals, there nevertheless exist structural incentives for institutional division.
Their stipulation is yet to be substantiated by a more thorough analysis of the reattachment process, unavailable to date.
The textbooks seem to have been written in accordance with the stipulations associated with moral instruction in the 1899-1900 curriculum.
By rejecting unrestricted rewrite rules and by moving continually to constrain the shape of grammar, generativists have been waging their own war against mere stipulation.
