if

  1. (initialism) .  interactive fiction.
  2. Conjunction.  Supposing that, assuming that, in the circumstances that; (non-gloss definition, used to introduce a condition or choice.) .
  3. Conjunction.  Supposing that; (non-gloss definition, used with past subjunctive indicating that the condition is not fulfilled.) .
  4. Conjunction.  Although; (non-gloss definition, used to introduce a concession.) .
  5. Conjunction.  (computing) In the event that a statement is true (a programming statement that acts in a similar manner).
  6. Conjunction.  Whether; (non-gloss definition, used to introduce a noun clause as the object of certain verbs.) .
  7. Conjunction.  (context, usually hyperbolic) Even if; even in the circumstances that.
  8. Noun.  (informal) An uncertainty, possibility, condition, doubt etc.

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