In telecommunications, the term conditioning equipment has the following meanings:

1. At junctions of circuits, equipment used to obtain desired circuit characteristics, such as matched transmission levels, matched impedances, and equalization between facilities.
2. Corrective networks used to improve data transmission, such as equalization of the insertion loss-vs.-frequency characteristic and the envelope delay distortion over a desired frequency range.

 This article incorporates public domain material from Federal Standard 1037C. General Services Administration. Archived from the original on 2022-01-22. (in support of MIL-STD-188).