antirequisites

Noun

antirequisite (plural antirequisites)

1. A previous course (or learning experience) that overlaps in content with a course offering such that students may not take that course offering for academic credit.
   • Antirequisites affect the availability of a course in the opposite direction; if the antirequisite of course A has been taken, then the student cannot enroll in course A.2010, Austin L. Toombs, The impact of curriculum visualization on decision making among students: an honors thesis (HONRS 499) (Ball State University)
2. (broadly) A condition that prevents something from occurring.
   • The key result of this Letter, however, is that hierarchical structure formation is not an antirequisite for the successful formation of disks: the adoption of a plausible physical model for feedback can indeed regulate star formation and avoid catastrophic AM loss.2001, RJ Thacker, HMP Couchman, “Star formation, supernova feedback, and the angular momentum problem in numerical cold dark matter cosmogony: halfway there?”, in The Astrophysical Journal Letters...

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