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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conditional \Con*di"tion*al\, n.
A limitation. [Obs.]
--Bacon.-
A conditional word, mode, or proposition.
Disjunctives may be turned into conditionals.
--L. H. Atwater.
Conditional \Con*di"tion*al\, a. [L. conditionalis.]
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Containing, implying, or depending on, a condition or conditions; not absolute; made or granted on certain terms; as, a conditional promise.
Every covenant of God with man . . . may justly be made (as in fact it is made) with this conditional punishment annexed and declared.
--Bp. Warburton. -
(Gram. & Logic) Expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense.
A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another.
--Whately.The words hypothetical and conditional may be . . . used synonymously.
--J. S. Mill.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., condicionel, from Old French condicionel (Modern French conditionnel), from Latin conditionalis, from condicionem (see condition (n.)). Related: Conditionally.
Wiktionary
a. 1 limited by a condition. 2 (context logic English) Stating that one sentence is true if another is. 3 (context grammar English) Expressing a condition or supposition. n. 1 (context grammar English) A conditional sentence; a statement that depends on a condition being true or false. 2 (context grammar English) The conditional mood. 3 (context logic English) A statement that one sentence is true if another is. 4 (context computing programming English) An instruction that branches depending on the truth of a condition at that point. 5 (context obsolete English) A limitation.
WordNet
adj. qualified by reservations
imposing or depending on or containing a condition; "conditional acceptance of the terms"; "lent conditional support"; "the conditional sale will not be complete until the full purchase price is paid" [ant: unconditional]
Wikipedia
Conditional may refer to:
- Causal conditional, if X then Y, where X is a cause of Y
- Conditional probability, the probability of an event A given that another event B has occurred
- Conditional proof, in logic: a proof that asserts a conditional, and proves that the antecedent leads to the consequent
- Strict conditional, as used in philosophy, logic, and mathematics
- Material conditional, in propositional calculus, or logical calculus in mathematics
- Relevance conditional, in relevance logic
- Conditional (programming), a statement or expression in computer programming languages
- A conditional expression in computer programming languages such as ?:
- Conditions in a contract
In grammar and linguistics:
- Conditional mood (or conditional tense), a verb form in many languages
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Conditional sentence, a sentence type used to refer to hypothetical situations and their consequences
- Indicative conditional, a conditional sentence expressing "if A then B" in a natural language
- Counterfactual conditional, a conditional sentence indicating what would be the case if its antecedent were true
In computer science, conditional statements, conditional expressions and conditional constructs are features of a programming language, which perform different computations or actions depending on whether a programmer-specified boolean condition evaluates to true or false. Apart from the case of branch predication, this is always achieved by selectively altering the control flow based on some condition.
In imperative programming languages, the term "conditional statement" is usually used, whereas in functional programming, the terms "conditional expression" or "conditional construct" are preferred, because these terms all have distinct meanings.
Although dynamic dispatch is not usually classified as a conditional construct, it is another way to select between alternatives at runtime.
Usage examples of "conditional".
After the last firing, the unremembered night-hours to Hamburg, the hop from Hamburg to Bydgoszcz in a purloined P-51 Mustang was so clearly Procalowski-down-out-of-the-sky-in-a-machine, that Thanatz came to imagine he had disposed of Blicero too only in that same very conditional, metallic way.
In the real world, events often proved dependent or nonrandom and one must resort to conditional probabilities.
This conditional permission is granted providing qualified UIPS technicians and administrators under the oversight of Plutonian citizens staff these facilities.
Shortly after seizing power in 1941, Rashid Ali appointed an ultranationalist civilian cabinet, which gave only conditional consent to British requests in April 1941 for troop landings in Iraq.
A few hours ago, while he slept, both archbishops came and anointed him anyway and gave him conditional absolution, but he has absolutely refused to receive Communion from them or any of their priests.
I think myself fully absolved from any such conditional promise, which indeed is never interpreted into any other than a bare compliment.
Emperor's presence in the army with his military court and from the consequent presence there of an indefinite, conditional, and unsteady fluctuation of relations, which is in place at court but harmful in an army.
But you also say that our oath of allegiance is a conditional matter, and to that I reply: 'You are my best friend, as you know, but if you formed a secret society and began working against the government--be it what it may--I know it is my duty to obey the government.
They can't touch it unless they first peel off all those conditionals and can tell them from the binding spell itself, and they'd have to do that without her cooperation.
They say they can remove the conditionals, which, inside there, would turn her into an Eve forever.
He had not yet gotten words for know and not know, was unsure of those pesky soft-tissue conditionals if and then.
A set of conditionals that didn’t jibe with Mosphei’, which was relatively simple, nor Ragi, which wasn’t simple at all.
Sure enough, all the stuff about fantasy games and role-playing was kept ambiguous, the text peppered with conditionals: 'may have', 'could be', 'if.
Even as he spoke, he realized that he hadn’t put any modifiers or conditionals in.
Bistem Kar gave a hand-clap of conditional agreement, but he still looked decidedly unhappy, and Pahner didn't really blame him.