AND
See also: Appendix:Variations of "and"
Translingual
Symbol
AND
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ænd
Etymology 1
Noun
AND (plural ANDs)
- (logic) Alternative form of ∧, the conjunction operator.
- (logic) The binary operator and, only true if both of two inputs is true. In infix notation.
- 2022 August 4, William Bahn, “Boolean Algebra Laws—Delving Into Boolean Identities”, in All About Circuits[1]:
- The proof (Tables 9 and 10) of idempotence for both OR and AND follows from examining the definition of each operation under the constraint that both inputs have the same value.
| Input | Output | |
|---|---|---|
| A | B | |
| 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 |
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Translations
(logic)
Verb
AND (third-person singular simple present ANDs, present participle ANDing, simple past and past participle ANDed)
- (logic, transitive) To combine (a value) with another value by means of this operator.
- 2006, Gary R Wright, W Richard Stevens, The Implementation:
- If an internal node is encountered that contains a mask, the search key is logically ANDed with the mask and another search is made of the subtree...
See also
Etymology 2
Initialism.
Adjective
AND (comparative more AND, superlative most AND)