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A conditional variable is a synchronization primitive used in concurrent programming to manage access to shared resources. It is often used in conjunction with mutexes to coordinate the execution of threads. A conditional variable allows one or more threads to wait until a particular condition is met, at which point another thread can signal the condition to wake up the waiting threads.

Conditional variables are typically used in scenarios where a thread needs to wait for a specific event or condition to occur before it can proceed. For example, in a producer-consumer problem, a consumer thread might wait on a conditional variable until a producer thread signals that new data is available.

The basic operations associated with a conditional variable include waiting and signaling. The wait operation causes the calling thread to block until another thread signals the condition. The signal operation wakes up one of the waiting threads, while the broadcast operation wakes up all waiting threads.

Conditional variables are widely supported in many programming languages and libraries, including POSIX threads (pthreads), Java, and Python. They provide a powerful mechanism for thread synchronization and are essential for building robust and efficient concurrent applications.