Meaning

3 senses
  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.

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Examples

2 sentences
  1. "Good family man" isn't mutually exclusive with "Arab" or "Muslim."

  2. "Would you like tea or coffee, sir?" "Well, that depends on whether you mean inclusive or or exclusive or."

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Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
exclusive disjunction:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
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Origin

exclusive + or.

exclusive + or.

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