[con.di.tion.al] adj (14c) 1: subject to, implying, or dependent upon a condition "a ~ promise"
2: expressing, containing, or implying a supposition "the ~ clause if he speaks" 3 a: true only for certain values of the variables or symbols involved "~ equations" b: stating the case when one or more random variables are fixed or one or more events are known "~ frequency distribution"
4. a: conditioned
2. "~ reflex" "~ response" b: established by conditioning as the stimulus eliciting a conditional response -- con.di.tion.al.i.ty n -- con.di.tion.al.ly adv
[2]conditional n (1828) 1: a conditional word, clause, verb form, or morpheme
2: implication 2b