Meaning of only if | Babel Free
Definitions
Not unless; used to introduce a necessary condition.
Examples
“The company will succeed only if it has sufficient backing.”
“Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.”
“1965 June 4, John W. Tukey, Data Analysis and the Frontiers of Geophysics, in Science New Series, 148(3675), page 1288, http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0036-8075%2819650604%293%3A148%3A3675%3C1283%3ADAATFO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-N This is a somewhat paradoxical conclusion, and we can be happy to learn that it follows only if we can trust, precisely and in detail, the assumed way in which the probability of occurrence of a deviation decreases as the size of that deviation increases.”
“This option is available only if the client supports it.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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