Conditional vs Provisory - What's the difference?
conditional | provisory | Synonyms |
(grammar) A conditional sentence; a statement that depends on a condition being true or false.
(grammar) The conditional mood.
(logic) A statement that one sentence is true if another is.
* L. H. Atwater
(computing, programming) An instruction that branches depending on the truth of a condition at that point.
(obsolete) A limitation.
Limited by a condition.
* Bishop Warburton
(logic) Stating that one sentence is true if another is.
* Whately
(grammar) Expressing a condition or supposition.
containing (a) proviso(es)
:''The provisory clause effectively excluded his otherwise logical heirs from his main inheritance
dependent on a condition (proviso)
:''A provisory guarantee is rather like blackmail
pending something more permanent
Provisory is a synonym of conditional.
As adjectives the difference between conditional and provisory
is that conditional is limited by a condition while provisory is containing (a) proviso(es.As a noun conditional
is a conditional sentence; a statement that depends on a condition being true or false.conditional
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Alternative forms
* conditionall (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- "A implies B" is a conditional .
- Disjunctives may be turned into conditionals .
ifandwhileare conditionals in some programming languages.
- (Francis Bacon)
Synonyms
* (in logic) if-then statement; material conditionalMeronyms
* (in logic) antecedent * (in logic) consequentAdjective
(-)- I made my son a conditional promise: I would buy him a bike if he kept his room tidy.
- Every covenant of God with man may justly be made (as in fact it is made) with this conditional punishment annexed and declared.
- "A implies B" is a conditional statement.
- A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another.
- a conditional word, mode, or tense
