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conditional
English
Alternative forms
- conditionall (obsolete)
Etymology
From Old French condicionel (French conditionnel).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?n?d???n?l/
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.
- (programming) An instruction that branches depending on the truth of a condition at that point.
- (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
Adjective
conditional (not comparable)
- Limited by a condition.
- 1753, William Warburton, The Character and Conduct of the Messengers
- Every covenant of God with man […] may justly be made (as in fact it is made) with this conditional punishment annexed and declared.
- 1753, William Warburton, The Character and Conduct of the Messengers
- (logic) Stating that one sentence is true if another is.
- 1826, Richard Whately, Elements of Logic
- A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another.
- 1826, Richard Whately, Elements of Logic
- (grammar) Expressing a condition or supposition.
Synonyms
- conditioned
- relative
- limited
- (in logic): hypothetical
Antonyms
- absolute
- categorical
- unconditional
Derived terms
Translations
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cond
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?nd
Etymology 1
Clipping.
Adjective
cond (not comparable)
- Clipping of conditional.
Etymology 2
From Middle English conduen, condien, French conduire (“to conduct”), from Latin conducere.
Verb
cond (third-person singular simple present conds, present participle conding, simple past and past participle conded)
- Obsolete spelling of con (“direct or steer a ship”)
- 1922, Publications of the Navy Records Society:
- Sometimes he who conds the ship will be speaking to him at helm at every little yaw; which the sea-faring men love not, as being a kind of disgrace to their steerage; then in mockage they will say, sure the channel is narrow he conds so thick […]
- 1922, Publications of the Navy Records Society:
Further reading
- cond in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- no-CD
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