XOR

See also: xor, хог, and -xor

English

Etymology

Short for exclusive or.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɛks ˈɔɹ/

Noun

XOR (plural XORs)

XOR Truth Table
InputOutput
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  1. (logic) The connective "exclusive or".
    The XOR of (0,0) is 0; (0,1) is 1; (1,0) is 1; and (1,1) is 0.
  2. (electrical engineering) A logic gate that implements "exclusive or".
  3. (programming) The symbolic representation that implements "exclusive or".
    XOR can be used to add bits without carrying.

Usage notes
  • Boolean variables and states (AND, OR, NOT, TRUE, FALSE etc.) are commonly written in all uppercase in order to distinguish them from the ordinary uses of the words.

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  • (electrical engineering): XNOR

Verb

XOR (third-person singular simple present XORs, present participle XORing, simple past and past participle XORed)

  1. (transitive, computing) To perform the XOR function upon.
    • 1989, IEEE Communications Society, Conference Record
      The XORed sequence has the same period as the sequence that is not XORed.
    • 1998, Stafford Tavares, Henk Meijer, Selected Areas in Cryptography
      XORing different constants into the four s-boxes in such a cipher has exactly the same effect as XORing a single constant into each round function output.

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Portuguese

Noun

XOR m (plural XORs)

  1. Alternative spelling of xor
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