possible world

British  

noun

1. logic (in modal logic) a semantic device formalizing the notion of what the world might have been like. A statement is necessarily true if and only if it is true in every possible world

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Example Sentences

A cold, wet storm system is forecast to travel through California later this week, increasing the chances that Los Angeles on Saturday could get its first rainfall since early May — which would coincide with a possible World Series Game 7 at Dodger Stadium.

From Los Angeles Times

In the age of climate change and mounting efforts toward sustainability, cassava is emerging as a possible world crop.

From Salon

He also worked on that park’s interactive scavenger hunt, the now-retired “Kim Possible: World Showcase Adventure,” and more recently devised a realistic “Star Wars” lightsaber that simulated the look of an illuminated, retractable blade, which many online patent hunters have compared, in simplified terms, to a sort of reverse tape measure.

From Los Angeles Times

It would have been fanciful seven months ago to identify Wales as possible World Cup semi-finalists when a miserable Six Nations campaign saw them win one game.

From BBC

According to the SEC, Viggiano and Salamone invested in four other defense companies as a "smokescreen" when they bought Maxar securities, so they could say they were buying defense stocks "in anticipation of a possible World War III."

From Reuters