Definition of Boolean

1. Adjective. 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.

Partainyms: Boole
Derivative terms: Boole

Definition of Boolean

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the work of George Boole. ¹

2. Adjective. (context 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. ¹

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

4. Adjective. (alternative capitalization of Boolean) ¹

5. Noun. (alternative capitalization of Boolean) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Boolean

Book of Proverbs
Book of Psalms
Book of Revelation
Book of Ruth
Book of Susanna
Book of Tobit
Book of Zachariah
Book of Zephaniah
Book of the Dead
Book of the Prophet Daniel
Book syndrome
Booker T. Washington
Booker Taliaferro Washington
Books of Moses
Boole
Boolean (current term)
Boolean algebra
Boolean function
Boolean functions
Boolean lattice
Boolean logic
Boolean ring
Boolean rings
Boolean variable
Boolean variables
Booleans
Boomers
Boon Lay
Boone
Boontling

Literary usage of Boolean

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the Theory of Invariants by Oliver Edmunds Glenn (1915)
"I. Boolean system of a linear form. The Boolean system for a linear form, ... Boolean system of a quadratic. In order to obtain the corresponding system for ..."

2. Geometric Computing Science: First Steps by Robert Hermann (1991)
"Mathematically, we can identify the ‘algebra' of ‘predicates' of form (14.6) with the Boolean algebra (14.4). One strategy that computer scientists ..."

3. A Treatise on the Theory of Invariants by Oliver Edmunds Glenn (1915)
"I. Boolean system of a linear form. The Boolean system for a linear form, ... Boolean system of a quadratic. In order to obtain the corresponding system for ..."

4. Dynamics & Stochastics: Festschrift in Honour of M.S. Keane by Dee Denteneer, F. den Hollander, M. S. Keane, Evgeny Verbitskiy (2006)
"This is the covered region obtained from the Boolean model {(x, + Si) : i > 1}. The Boolean model is said to be completely covered if ACC almost surely. ..."

5. First Text Retrieval Conference (Trec-1): Proceedings by D. K. Harman (1993)
"The method described here automatically generates complex Boolean queries for word-based search, so that the same mechanism can be used with higher accuracy ..."

6. SAS(R) Component Language 9.1:: Reference, Volumes 1 and 2 by SAS Institute (2004)
"These examples show SAS expressions: o3 Dx D age<iOO D (abc)/2 D min(2,-3,i) SCL expressions can resolve to numeric, character, or Boolean values. ..."

7. Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics by R. Dougherty, Edward R Dougherty (2005)
"Modeling genetic regulatory networks with probabilistic Boolean networks llya Shmulevich and Edward R. Dougherty 7.1. Introduction High-throughput genomic ..."

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