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if-thens

if-thens is the plural of if-then.

Meaning of if-then

Noun

if-then (plural if-thens)

  1. A proposition or statement about what should or does occur when a certain condition is met.
    • Disposition statements are always tantamount to conditional if-thens. (“Glass is fragile” amounts to “If glass is subjected to a shock, it will break”; “Wood is combustible” comes to “If wood is exposed to fire, it will burn”; and so on.)2007, Nicholas Rescher, Conditionals, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 13
  2. A conditional statement; a line of code that specifies a Boolean condition to check and a statement to execute when that Boolean evaluates to true.
    • List Formatter makes properly-spaced & indented listings with page breaks; each statement on new line, if-thens and loops called out; a great de-bugger!1981, Apple Orchard, page 31

Questions about if-thens

What is if-thens the plural of?
If-thens is the plural of if-then.

Words near if-thens in the dictionary

  1. if-then
  2. if-then statement
  3. if-then statements
  4. if-then-else
  5. if-thenism
  6. if-thens
  7. if/then
  8. if/thens
  9. Ifa
  10. ifackins
  11. IFAD

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