Boolean
pronunciation
How to pronounce Boolean in British English: UK [ˈbu:liən]
How to pronounce Boolean in American English: US [ˈbuliən]
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- Adjective:
- of or relating to a combinatorial system devised by George Boole that combines propositions with the logical operators AND and OR and IF THEN and EXCEPT and NOT
Word Origin
- Boolean (adj.)
- in reference to abstract algebraic systems, 1851, named for George Boole (1815-1864), English mathematician. The surname is a variant of Bull.
Example
- 1. What 's it say after boolean forms ?
- 2. Boolean logic is especially useful for formulating clear conditional statements .
- 3. Note that boolean is quite limited .
- 4. Boolean indicating that the alarm is visible .
- 5. So the wild-card and boolean operators that work like magic in library databases will not work on google or yahoo .