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conditional

adj
/kənˈdɪʃ.ə.nəl/

Etymology

From French conditionnel, from Old French condicionel, equivalent to condition + -al.

  1. derived from condicio
  2. derived from condicion
  3. derived from condicioun
  4. formed as conditional — “condition + -al”

Definitions

  1. Limited by a condition.

    • I made my son a conditional promise: I would buy him a bike if he kept his room tidy.
    • Every covenant of God with man […] may justly be made (as in fact it is made) with this conditional punishment annexed and declared.

  2. Stating that one sentence is true if another is true.

    • "A implies B" is a conditional statement.
    • A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another.

  3. Expressing a condition or supposition.

    • a conditional word, mode, or tense
  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. A conditional sentence

      A conditional sentence; a statement that depends on a condition being true or false.

    2. The conditional mood.

    3. A statement that one sentence is true if another is.

      • "A implies B" is a conditional.
      • Disjunctives may be turned into conditionals

    4. An instruction that branches depending on the truth of a condition at that point.

      • if and while are conditionals in some programming languages.

    5. A condition (a limitation or restriction).

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Derived

biconditional, conditional agreement, conditional assembly language, conditional baptism, conditional clause, conditional comment, conditional entropy, conditional fee, conditionalise, conditionalism, conditionalist, conditionality, conditionalize, conditionally, conditionalness, conditional operator, conditional perfect, conditional probability, conditional probability distribution, conditional proof, conditional sentence, conditional tense, conditional unconditional, inconditional, multiconditional, nonconditional, postconditional, pre-conditional, semiconditional, counterfactual conditional, first conditional, horseshoe conditional, indicative conditional, mixed conditional, Philonian conditional, present conditional, relevance conditional, second conditional, strict conditional, third conditional · +1 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at conditional. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at conditional. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at conditional

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA