Boolean en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- bo͞oliʹən (General-American)
- /ˈbuli.ən/ (General-American)
- bo͞oʹliən (General-American)
- /ˈbuːl.i.ən/ (UK)
- /buːˈli.ən/ (UK)
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Etymology
From Boole + -ean, named after English mathematician, philosopher and logician George Boole (1815–1864).
Meanings
- (not-comparable) Of or pertaining to the work of George Boole.
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(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.
The associativity of OR and AND is not at all obvious. It is tempting to assume that because OR and AND are commutative that they must be associative also. This is not the case, however, and some commutative Boolean operators are not associative. Examples include NAND and NOR.
2022 August 4, William Bahn, “Boolean Algebra Laws—Delving Into Boolean Identities”, in All About Circuits:Oh, Boolean operators! "Blue and ones"! Good idea!
2005 May 9, Michael Chapman; Matthew Chapman, “Bug In Mouth Disease”, in Homestar Runner, spoken by Strong Sad (Matthew Chapman):
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| boolean | alternative | lexicographic | |
| Boolian | alternative, dated | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Boolean logic · Boolean function · Boolean variable · Boolean algebra · Boolean circuit · Boolean ring
Translations (25)
vi (thuộc) Boole (logic: pertaining to data items that have values “true” and “false”) · de boolesch (logic: pertaining to data items that have values “true” and “false”) · it booleano (logic: pertaining to data items that have values “true” and “false”) · mk булов (logic: pertaining to data items that have values “true” and “false”) · tr Boole'ca (logic: pertaining to data items that have values “true” and “false”) · sv boolesk (logic: pertaining to data items that have values “true” and “false”) · vi luận lí (logic: pertaining to data items that have values “true” and “false”) · ro boolean (logic: pertaining to data items that have values “true” and “false”) · ru бу́лев (logic: pertaining to data items that have values “true” and “false”) · vi luận lý (logic: pertaining to data items that have values “true” and “false”) · fi totuusarvoinen (logic: pertaining to data items that have values “true” and “false”) · ja ブール代数の (logic: pertaining to data items that have values “true” and “false”) · es booleano (logic: pertaining to data items that have values “true” and “false”) · ca booleà (logic: pertaining to data items that have values “true” and “false”) · cs booleovský (logic: pertaining to data items that have values “true” and “false”) · fr booléen (logic: pertaining to data items that have values “true” and “false”) · vi Boolean (logic: pertaining to data items that have values “true” and “false”) · eo bulea (logic: pertaining to data items that have values “true” and “false”) · pt booleano (logic: pertaining to data items that have values “true” and “false”) · fr boolien (logic: pertaining to data items that have values “true” and “false”) · ko 부울 대수의 (logic: pertaining to data items that have values “true” and “false”) · ko 불 대수의 (logic: pertaining to data items that have values “true” and “false”) · tr Boole'sal (logic: pertaining to data items that have values “true” and “false”) · nl booleaans (logic: pertaining to data items that have values “true” and “false”) · pl boolowski (logic: pertaining to data items that have values “true” and “false”)