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Danish
Pronunciation
Read as "hvis og kun hvis"
Conjunction
hviss
- (mathematics) iff (if and only if)
- Synonym: omm (om og kun om)
Norwegian
Pronunciation
Read as "hvis og bare hvis"
Conjunction
hviss
- (mathematics) iff (if and only if)
- Synonym: omm (om og bare om)
Old Norse
Etymology
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Interjection
hviss
- whew!
References
- “hviss”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press