OR
See also: Appendix:Variations of "or"
English
Conjunction
OR
- (logic) Inclusive or; either one proposition or the other is true or both.
- (computer science) A lexical symbol to implement inclusive or in a computer language.
- (electrical engineering) A logic gate to implement inclusive or.
Noun
OR (uncountable)
- (logic) The binary operator inclusive or, true if one at least one of two inputs is true. In infix notation.
- 2022 August 4, William Bahn, “Boolean Algebra Laws—Delving Into Boolean Identities”, in All About Circuits[1]:
- The proof (Tables 9 and 10) of idempotence for both OR and AND follows from examining the definition of each operation under the constraint that both inputs have the same value.
| Input | Output | |
|---|---|---|
| A | B | |
| 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 |
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See also
Noun
OR (countable and uncountable, plural ORs)
- (healthcare, countable) Initialism of operating room.
- (Philippines, accounting, business, countable) Initialism of official receipt.
- (sciences, uncountable) Initialism of operations research.
- (sports, countable) Initialism of Olympic Record.
- (anatomy, countable) Initialism of odorant receptor.
- (anatomy, countable) Initialism of olfactory receptor.
- (chiefly Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of original research.
- (military) Initialism of other ranks.
Translations
Proper noun
OR
- (postal) Abbreviation of Oregon: a state of the United States.
- Abbreviation of Orissa, former name of Odisha: a state of India.