XOR
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Short for exclusive or.
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XOR (plural XORs)
| Input | Output | |
|---|---|---|
| A | B | |
| 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 |
- (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.
- (electrical engineering) A logic gate that implements "exclusive or".
- (programming) The symbolic representation that implements "exclusive or".
- XOR can be used to add bits without carrying.
Usage notes[edit]
- 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
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logic: connective
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electrical engineering: logic gate
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Verb[edit]
XOR (third-person singular simple present XORs, present participle XORing, simple past and past participle XORed)
- (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.
- 1989, IEEE Communications Society, Conference Record
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XOR m (plural XORs)
- Alternative spelling of xor