conditional

  1. Noun.  (grammar) More completely conditional sentence, a statement that depends on a condition being true or false.
  2. Noun.  (grammar) The conditional mood.
  3. Noun.  (logic) A statement that one sentence is true if another is.
  4. Noun.  (computing, programming) An instruction that branches depending on the truth of a condition at that point.
  5. Adjective.  Depending on a condition.
  6. Adjective.  (logic) Stating that one sentence is true if another is.

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