boolean
7 synonyms for boolean, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Adjective — Relating to a system of logic in which every statement is either true or false, with nothing in between, and statements are combined using operations such as and, or and not.
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Synonyms by Meaning
1. adjective
Relating to a system of logic in which every statement is either true or false, with nothing in between, and statements are combined using operations such as and, or and not.
“The filter uses boolean logic, so a record has to satisfy both conditions to appear.”
How to use boolean
The word patterns that sound natural to a native speaker.
Standard in mathematics, computing and library search; rare in everyday speech.
Etymology
From the surname of George Boole, the nineteenth-century English mathematician whose work on the algebra of logic the term commemorates, plus the adjectival ending -an.
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