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Definition of Mutually exclusive

1. Adjective. Unable to be both true at the same time.

Definition of Mutually exclusive

1. Adjective. Describing multiple events or states of being such that the occurrence of any one implies the non-occurrence of all the others. ¹

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Literary usage of Mutually exclusive

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

1. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"These two properties constitute the definition of a pair of contradictories (whether terms or propositions), namely, they are mutually exclusive, ..."

2. Algebra: An Elementary Text Book for the Higher Classes of Secondary Schools by George Chrystal (1889)
"A set of events so slated are said to be mutually exclusive. The set of events con- idered may be merely different ways of happening of the Mne event, ..."

3. The Elements of Ethics by John Henry Muirhead (1897)
"The Main Heads not mutually Exclusive. Before going on to suggest a classification which may in some degree satisfy these requirements, it may be well to ..."

4. The Law of Contracts by Samuel Williston, Clarence Martin Lewis (1920)
"The buyer's remedies are mutually exclusive. lt seems to be generally assumed that if a buyer elects the remedy of rescission for breach of warranty he is ..."

5. A Treatise on the Specific Performance of Contracts by Edward Fry (1892)
"The estate and the purchase-money are things mutually exclusive. " You cannot," said Knight Bruce (then) VC, in a case arising out of the sale of some slob ..."

6. Introductory Treatise on Lie's Theory of Finite Continuous Transformation Groups by John Edward Campbell (1903)
"We now rearrange the imprimitive groups of the plane into mutually exclusive types and into four new classes, corresponding to the different systems of ..."

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