Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to a logical combinatorial system treating variables, such as propositions and computer logic elements, through the operators AND, OR, NOT, and XOR: a browser that supports Boolean searches.
- adj. Of or relating to a data type or variable in a programming language that can have one of two values, true or false.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to the work of George Boole.
- adj. logic, computing 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.
- n. logic, computing A variable that can hold a single true/false (1/0) value.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. 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
Etymologies
- Boole + -ean, after English mathematician, philosopher and logician George Boole (1815–1864). (Wiktionary)
- After George Boole. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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