Definition of "preparation"

(uncountable) The act of preparing or getting ready.  examples

(uncountable) The state of being prepared; readiness.  examples

(countable) That which is prepared.

1. A substance, especially a remedy, that is prepared.  examples

2. (anatomy) A part of any animal body preserved as a specimen.  examples

3. (music) Any of the objects placed between the strings of a prepared piano.  examples

(Judaism) The day before the Sabbath or other Jewish feast-day.  examples

Devotional exercises introducing an office.  examples

(music) The previous introduction, as an integral part of a chord, of a note continued into a succeeding dissonance.  examples