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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An algebra in which variables may have one of two values and the operations defined on them are logical OR, a type of addition, and logical AND, a type of multiplication.
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- noun algebra, logic, computing An algebra in which all
elements can take only one of twovalues (typically 0 and 1, or "true" and "false") and are subject tooperations based onAND ,OR andNOT - noun algebra A
De Morgan algebra which also satisfies thelaw of excluded middle and the law of noncontradiction.
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- noun a system of symbolic logic devised by George Boole; used in computers
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