EGAVE

else

About 83.13 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Other; in addition to previously mentioned items.
    The instructor is busy. Can anyone else help me?
  2. adverb Otherwise, if not.
    How else (= in what other way) can it be done?
  3. conjunction For otherwise; or else.
    Then the Wronskian of f and g must be nonzero, else they could not be linearly independent.

Similar words

other additional added otherwise elsewhere also besides alternatively then yet

Often followed by

to in is was that could but can would

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