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Definition of Prime implicant
1. Noun. (electrical engineering) A group of related 1's (implicant) on a Karnaugh map which is not subsumed by any other implicant in the same map. ''Equivalently (in terms of Boolean algebra),'' a product term which is a "minimal" implicant in the sense that removing any of its literals will yield a product term which is not an implicant (but beware: on a Karnaugh map it would appear "maximal"). ¹
2. Noun. (electrical engineering) A group of related 0's (implicant) on a Karnaugh map which is not subsumed by any other implicant (of 0's) in the same map. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
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