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implicants

implicants is the plural of implicant.

Meaning of implicant

Noun

implicant (plural implicants)

  1. The hypothesis of an implication
  2. On a Karnaugh map: a set of ones (whose quantity is a power of two) which are related by adjacency (i.e., the set is connected, if the Karnaugh map is considered to be a graph which "wraps around" its edges, like a torus; and all elements of the subgraph induced by the set have the same degree). Equivalently, in terms of Boolean algebra, a product term which, when true, always implies that the given Boolean function is true.

Phrases with implicants

Questions about implicants

What is implicants the plural of?
Implicants is the plural of implicant.

Words near implicants in the dictionary

  1. implicable
  2. implicand
  3. implicands
  4. implicans
  5. implicant
  6. implicants
  7. implicata
  8. implicate
  9. implicated
  10. implicates
  11. implicating

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