conditional
English
Alternative forms
- conditionall (obsolete)
Etymology
From Old French condicionel (French conditionnel).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kənˈdɪʃənəl/
Noun
conditional (plural conditionals)
- (grammar) A conditional sentence; a statement that depends on a condition being true or false.
- (grammar) The conditional mood.
- (logic) A statement that one sentence is true if another is.
- "A implies B" is a conditional.
- (Can we date this quote?), L. H. Atwater, (Please provide the book title or journal name), quoted in 'OED':
- Disjunctives may be turned into conditionals
- (programming) An instruction that branches depending on the truth of a condition at that point.
if
andwhile
are conditionals in some programming languages.
- (obsolete) A limitation.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
Synonyms
- (in logic): if-then statement; material conditional
Meronyms
- (in logic): antecedent
- (in logic): consequent
Translations
grammar: statement
grammar: mode/mood
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limitation — see limitation
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Adjective
conditional (not comparable)
- Limited by a condition.
- I made my son a conditional promise: I would buy him a bike if he kept his room tidy.
- Bishop Warburton
- Every covenant of God with man […] may justly be made (as in fact it is made) with this conditional punishment annexed and declared.
- (logic) Stating that one sentence is true if another is.
- "A implies B" is a conditional statement.
- Whately
- A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another.
- (grammar) Expressing a condition or supposition.
- a conditional word, mode, or tense
Synonyms
- conditioned
- relative
- limited
- (in logic): hypothetical
Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations
limited by a condition
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