else
adjective
°Other; in addition to previously mentioned items.
"Can anyone else (=any other person) help me?"
verb
°Otherwise, if not.
"How else (=in what other way) can it be done?"
conjunction
"Then the Wronskian of f and g must be nonzero, else they could not be linearly independent."
°(computing in many programming languages and pseudocode) but if the condition of the previous clause is false, do the following.
synonyms: otherwise