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).

    From Wiktionary

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