English Dictionary: xor | by the DICT Development Group |
2 results for xor | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
xor /X'or/, /kzor/ conj. Exclusive or. `A xor B' means `A or B, but not both'. "I want to get cherry pie xor a banana split." This derives from the technical use of the term as a function on truth-values that is true if exactly one of its two arguments is true. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
xor /X'or/, /kzor/ Exclusive or. "A xor B" means "A or B, but not both". The {truth table} is A | B | A xor B --+---+-------- F | F | F F | T | T T | F | T T | T | F [{Jargon File}] (1994-12-01) |