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short-circuit operator

short-circuit operator is the alternative spelling of short circuit operator.

Meaning of short circuit operator

Noun

short circuit operator (plural short circuit operators)

  1. A logical operator that returns a value as soon as the outcome is certain, without necessarily testing all operands (for example, an OR operator returning true if the first operand evaluates as true, without evaluating the second operand).

Forms of short-circuit operator

pluralshort-circuit operators

Questions about short-circuit operator

What is short-circuit operator the alternative spelling of?
Short-circuit operator is the alternative spelling of short circuit operator.

Words near short-circuit operator in the dictionary

  1. short-change
  2. short-changed
  3. short-changes
  4. short-changing
  5. short-circuit
  6. short-circuit operator
  7. short-circuit operators
  8. short-circuited
  9. short-circuiter
  10. short-circuiting
  11. short-circuits

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Adapted from Wiktionary: short-circuit operator (page history and authors); short circuit operator (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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