Conditional Definition

kən-dĭshə-nəl
adjective
Containing, implying, or dependent on a condition or conditions; qualified; not absolute.
A conditional award.
Webster's New World
Designating or including a compound proposition that has the form “if p, then q,” in which p and q are two different propositions.
Webster's New World
Expressing a condition.
A conditional clause.
Webster's New World
Brought about by conditioning.
American Heritage Medicine

(logic) Stating that one sentence is true if another is.

"A implies B" is a conditional statement.
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noun
A word, clause, mood, or tense expressing a condition.
Webster's New World

(grammar) A conditional sentence; a statement that depends on a condition being true or false.

Wiktionary

(logic) A statement that one sentence is true if another is.

"A implies B" is a conditional.
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(computing, programming) An instruction that branches depending on the truth of a condition at that point.

If and while are conditionals in some programming languages.
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Other Word Forms of Conditional

Noun

Singular:
conditional
Plural:
conditionals

Origin of Conditional

  • From Old French condicionel (French conditionnel).

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Conditional Sentence Examples

  • Certain sacrifices of animals he explains as intended to transfer a conditional curse.

  • These act as endowments for a specific period, and are conditional on the holder devoting his time to the investigation at first hand of some specified subject.

  • The decree of God is, when it concerns His own actions, absolute, but when it concerns man's, conditional, i.e.

  • Fiefs with a revenue of from 3000 to 20,000 aspres were timars, furnishing one armed warrior for every 3000 aspres' revenue; the grant of a fief was conditional on obligatory residence.

  • In conditional baptism the Latins, since about the year 1227, use the formula, " If thou art not baptized, then do I baptize thee," &c. The Latins further insist on a strict observance of the traditional matter and form.

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Words Starting With

CCOCON

Words Ending With

LALNAL

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conditional

Words Starting With C and Ending With L

Starts With C & Ends With LStarts With CO & Ends With LStarts With C & Ends With AL

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11 Letter Words11 Letter Words Starting With C11 Letter Words Ending With L