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Imperative can mean:
  • Imperative mood
    Imperative mood
    The imperative mood expresses commands or requests as a grammatical mood. These commands or requests urge the audience to act a certain way. It also may signal a prohibition, permission, or any other kind of exhortation.- Morphology :...

    , a grammatical mood expressing commands, direct requests, and prohibitions (syntax)
  • A morphological
    Morphology (linguistics)
    In linguistics, morphology is the identification, analysis and description, in a language, of the structure of morphemes and other linguistic units, such as words, affixes, parts of speech, intonation/stress, or implied context...

     item expressing commands, direct requests, and prohibitions (morphology)
  • Imperative programming
    Imperative programming
    In computer science, imperative programming is a programming paradigm that describes computation in terms of statements that change a program state...

    , a programming paradigm in computer science
  • Moral imperative
    Moral imperative
    A moral imperative is a principle originating inside a person's mind that compels that person to act. It is a kind of categorical imperative, as defined by Immanuel Kant. Kant took the imperative to be a dictate of pure reason, in its practical aspect. Not following the moral law was seen to be...

    , a philosophical concept relating to obligation
  • Imperative logic
    Imperative logic
    Imperative logic is the field of logic concerned with arguments containing sentences in the imperative mood. In contrast to sentences in the declarative mood, imperatives are neither true nor false. This leads to a number of logical dilemmas, puzzles, and paradoxes...