else
For otherwise; or elseFor otherwise; or else.
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1 sensesFor otherwise; or else.
Then the Wronskian of f and g must be nonzero, else they could not be linearly independent.
andernfalls, ansonsten, sonst
Origin
From Middle English ells, elles, from Old English elles (“other, otherwise, different”), fFrom Middle English ells, elles, from Old English elles (“other, otherwise, different”), from Proto-West Germanic *alljas, from Proto-Germanic *aljas (“of another, of something else”), genitive of *aljaz (“other”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos, from *h₂el- (“other”).
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