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exclusive or

exclusive or noun: exclusive disjunction: the use of or to indicate that of two predicates, one is true and one is false (without specifying which is which); contrasted with inclusive or, which does not imply that one must be false.

Noun

exclusive or (plural exclusive ors)

  1. Exclusive disjunction: the use of or to indicate that of two predicates, one is true and one is false (without specifying which is which); contrasted with inclusive or, which does not imply that one must be false.
  2. (broadly) Exclusive disjunction: the use of or to indicate that of two or more predicates, an odd number are true (without specifying which or how many); contrasted with inclusive or, which indicates only that one or more is true.
  3. An exclusive disjunction; the result of applying the above-described exclusive or to two or more predicates; contrasted with an inclusive or, which is the result of applying an inclusive or.

exclusive or meaning in Tamil

exclusive or in Tamil

தனித்த அல்லது

Forms of exclusive or

pluralexclusive ors
alternative formexclusive-or
alternative formXOR
alternative formxor
alternative formEOR
alternative formeor

Origin of exclusive or

exclusive + or.

Questions about exclusive or

What does exclusive or mean?
Exclusive or means exclusive disjunction: the use of or to indicate that of two predicates, one is true and one is false (without specifying which is which); contrasted with inclusive or, which does not imply that one must be false.
What is exclusive or in Tamil?
Exclusive or in Tamil is தனித்த அல்லது. See Exclusive or meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is exclusive or?
Exclusive or is a noun.
What is the plural of exclusive or?
The plural of exclusive or is exclusive ors.

Words near exclusive or in the dictionary

  1. Exclusive Brother
  2. exclusive disjunction
  3. exclusive disjunctions
  4. exclusive economic zone
  5. exclusive necrophiliac
  6. exclusive or
  7. exclusive ors
  8. exclusive right
  9. exclusive rights
  10. exclusive-or
  11. exclusive-ors

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: exclusive or (page history and authors); exclusive or (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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