Definition of IMPERATIVE. Meaning of IMPERATIVE. Synonyms of IMPERATIVE

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Definition of IMPERATIVE

Imperative
Imperative Im*per"a*tive, n. (Gram.) The imperative mood; also, a verb in the imperative mood.

Meaning of IMPERATIVE from wikipedia

- Look up imperative or imperatively in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Imperative may refer to: Imperative mood, a grammatical mood (or mode) expressing...
- A moral imperative is a strongly-felt principle that compels a person "in question" to act. It is a kind of categorical imperative, as defined by Immanuel...
- the imperative mood in natural languages expresses commands, an imperative program consists of commands for the computer to perform. Imperative programming...
- The categorical imperative (German: kategorischer Imperativ) is the central philosophical concept in the deontological moral philosophy of Immanuel Kant...
- The imperative mood is a grammatical mood that forms a command or request. The imperative mood is used to demand or require that an action be performed...
- Imperative logic is the field of logic concerned with imperatives. In contrast to declaratives, it is not clear whether imperatives denote propositions...
- hypothetical imperative (German: hypothetischer Imperativ) is originally introduced in the philosophical writings of Immanuel Kant. This sort of imperative is contrasted...
- Growth imperative is a term in economic theory regarding a possible necessity of economic growth. On the micro level, it describes mechanisms that force...
- Territorial Imperative may refer to: The Territorial Imperative, a 1966 nonfiction book by Robert Ardrey describing the evolutionarily determined instinct...
- expressions that map values to other values, rather than a sequence of imperative statements which update the running state of the program. In functional...