Boolean
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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
Boole + -ean, named after English mathematician, philosopher and logician George Boole (1815–1864).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbuːl.i.ən/, /buːˈli.ən/
Audio (UK) (file) - (US) enPR: bo͞oʹliən, bo͞oliʹən, IPA(key): /ˈbuli.ən/
Audio (US) (file)
Adjective[edit]
Boolean (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to the work of George Boole.
- (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.
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Derived terms
Translations[edit]
logic: pertaining to data items that have values “true” and “false”
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Noun[edit]
Boolean (plural Booleans)
Synonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
type of variable
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