else

adjective

1. Other; in addition to previously mentioned items.

- Can anyone else (=any other person) help me?

- What else (=what other thing) is there?

adverb

1. Otherwise, if not.

- How else (=in what other way) can it be done?

- I'm busy Friday; when else (=what other time) works for you?

conjunction

1. For otherwise; or else.

- Then the Wronskian of f and g must be nonzero, else they could not be linearly independent.

2. (computing, in many programming languages and pseudocode) but if the condition of the previous if clause is false, do the following.

- else { EditHistory.Show(edits); }