Boolean

Of or pertaining to the work of George Boole.

Adjective

  1. Of or pertaining to the work of George Boole.
  2. 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.
    • 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):
    • 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...

Origin

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

Forms

boolean Boolian

Derived

Boolean algebra Boolean circuit Boolean function Boolean logic Boolean ring Boolean variable

Noun

  1. A variable that can hold a single true/false (1/0) value.

Forms

Booleans boolean Boolian

Synonyms

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