conditional

About 6.44 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Limited by a condition.

   I made my son a conditional promise: I would buy him a bike if he kept his room tidy.

2. adjective Stating that one sentence is true if another is true.

   "A implies B" is a conditional statement.

3. adjective Expressing a condition or supposition.

   a conditional word, mode, or tense

4. noun A conditional sentence; a statement that depends on a condition being true or false.
5. noun The conditional mood.
6. noun A statement that one sentence is true if another is.

   "A implies B" is a conditional.

7. noun An instruction that branches depending on the truth of a condition at that point.

   if and while are conditionals in some programming languages.

8. noun A condition (a limitation or restriction).

Similar words

contingent qualified provisionary dependant dependent provisory tentative counterfactual probationary provisional

Often followed by

on probability upon probabilities and sale sales distribution statement

Word family

conditionalities conditionality conditionally conditionals