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Selection vs Conditional - What's the difference?

selection | conditional |

As nouns the difference between selection and conditional

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

As an adjective conditional is

limited by a condition.

selection

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The process or act of .
  • The large number of good candidates made selection difficult.
  • Something selected.
  • My final selection was a 1934 Chateau Lafitte.
  • A variety of items taken from a larger collection.
  • I've brought a selection of fine cheeses to go with your wine.
  • A musical piece.
  • For my next selection , I'll play ''Happy Birthday'' in F-sharp minor.

    Derived terms

    * ambidirectional selection * apostatic selection * artificial selection * asexual selection * background selection * balancing selection * compatibility selection * counterselection * deme selection * demic selection * directional selection * disruptive selection * diversifying selection * ecological selection * environmental selection * eugenic selection * fecundity selection * frequency-dependent selection * gametic selection * gene selection * genetic selection * genic selection * group selection * hierarchical selection * higher-level selection * individual selection * inevitable selection * interdeme selection * interdemic selection * intersexual selection * interspecies selection * intrademe selection * intrademic selection * intrasexual selection * intraspecies selection * kin selection * lower-level selection * multilevel selection (MLS) * natural selection * natural selectional * natural selectionary * negative selection * organismal selection * organismic selection * panselection * panselectionism * panselectionist * positive selection * purified selection * purifying selection * selectional * selectionary * selectionism * selectionist * selection rule * sexual selection * simultaneous selection * species selection * stabilising selection, stabilizing selection * strong selection * supraorgamismal selection * survival selection * theory of natural selection * unit of selection * viability selection * weak selection

    Synonyms

    * choice * (musical piece) number * (something selected) option * (musical piece) piece * (variety from larger collection) subset

    Anagrams

    *

    conditional

    English

    Alternative forms

    * conditionall (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.
  • "A implies B" is a conditional .
  • * L. H. Atwater
  • Disjunctives may be turned into conditionals .
  • (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.
  • (obsolete) A limitation.
  • (Francis Bacon)

    Synonyms

    * (in logic) if-then statement; material conditional

    Meronyms

    * (in logic) antecedent * (in logic) consequent

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Limited by a condition.
  • I made my son a conditional promise: I would buy him a bike if he kept his room tidy.
  • * Bishop Warburton
  • Every covenant of God with man may justly be made (as in fact it is made) with this conditional punishment annexed and declared.
  • (logic) Stating that one sentence is true if another is.
  • "A implies B" is a conditional statement.
  • * Whately
  • A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another.
  • (grammar) Expressing a condition or supposition.
  • a conditional word, mode, or tense

    Synonyms

    * conditioned * relative * limited * (in logic) hypothetical

    Antonyms

    * absolute * categorical * unconditional

    Derived terms

    * conditional entropy * conditional probability * conditional proof * conditional sentence