Meaning

2 senses
  1. (not comparable)Of or pertaining to the work of George Boole.

  2. (not comparable)Pertaining to data items that can have “true” and “false” (or, equivalently, 1 and 0 respectively) as their only possible values and to operations on such values.

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More definitions
  • of or relating to a combinatorial system devised by George Boole that combines propositions with the logical operators AND and OR and IF THEN and EXCEPT and NOT

Examples

2 sentences
  1. Are you bad at Boolean algebra?

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  2. Are you at odds with Boolean algebra?

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Translations

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By meaning 1
logic: pertaining to data items that have values “true” and “false”:
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By meaning 1
logic: pertaining to data items that have values “true” and “false”:

Origin

From Boole + -ean, named after English mathematician, philosopher and logician George Bool

From Boole + -ean, named after English mathematician, philosopher and logician George Boole (1815–1864).

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