what-if
noun[C]
ukusaquestionabout what couldhappenor what could havehappenedin aparticularsituationif something was or had been different:
a what-if question/scenarioStateagencieshave untilSept. 30 toidentifytheir"what-if"budgetcutscenarios.
| 单词 | what if? |
| 释义 | what if?B1 used toaskabout something that couldhappenin thefuture,especiallysomethingbad: 如果（尤指糟糕的情况出现）会怎么样?What if thebusis late?要是公共汽车晚点了怎么办？ What if you don'tpassyourexams?要是考试不及格怎么办？ Linguistics: question words & expressions
what if| American Dictionarywhat ifused foraskingwhatactionto take if aparticularthing shouldhappen: What ifourplaneisdelayedand we can’t make theconnection? what-if| Business Englishwhat-if noun[C] ukusaquestionabout what couldhappenor what could havehappenedin aparticularsituationif something was or had been different: a what-if question/scenarioStateagencieshave untilSept. 30 toidentifytheir"what-if"budgetcutscenarios. Examplesofwhat if?what if? This is useful not only for debugging the application but also for analyzing 'what-ifscenarios'. From theCambridge English Corpus Under thewhat-ifscenario, it may even be necessary to role back the current state of an object to some previous state. From theCambridge English Corpus One manifestation of this last point is the difficulty of determining preciselywhat-ifany-natural language processing is being used in the products on offer. From theCambridge English Corpus The system can use a similar process to perform awhat-ifanalysis, as in a spreadsheet. From theCambridge English Corpus They propose awhat-ifapproach that allows interactive exploration of the effects of system changes, thus converting complex tuning problems into simpler search problems. From theCambridge English Corpus The latter is used to explore how sensitive a design is to changes in parameter values by means of conventional "what-if" analyses. From theCambridge English Corpus Because it allows forwhat-ifreasoning, scenario generation is considered an easy tool to facilitate discussions with trustees. From theCambridge English Corpus Awhat-if-query was a hypothetical look downstream of some temporary setting of a variable. From theCambridge English Corpus This permits the user to experiment withwhat-ifscenarios: for example, the impact of a supplier ceasing to sell a particular part. From theCambridge English Corpus This enables the user to gain confidence in the rules and their modification, and also experiment withwhat-ifscenarios without any programming. From theCambridge English Corpus This "what-if" analysis allows us to consider which strategies are good candidates for further applied evaluation. From theCambridge English Corpus As a result, project teams could per formwhat-ifanalyses on different designs and explore a larger variety of design alternatives to identify the lowest cost design. From theCambridge English Corpus Many of these tools target tabular data, allowing to summarize them as charts or graphs, and to build complexwhat-ifanalysis scenarios with a few mouse clicks. From theCambridge English Corpus It might, for example, be used in the early stages of design, when the engineer wants to get a feel for the search space by asking "what-if" questions. From theCambridge English Corpus I have not been prepared to proceed by hypothetical example—either in forecasting the future or by "what-if" versions of history. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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