XOR

See also: xor, хог, and -xor

English

Etymology

Short for exclusive or.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɛks ˈɔɹ/

Noun

XOR (plural XORs)

XOR Truth Table
Input		Output
A	B	Output
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

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.

Synonyms

exclusive OR
XOR gate
ex-or
NOT equivalence

Antonyms

(electrical engineering): XNOR

Translations

logic: connective

Catalan: conexió llogica
Chinese:
Mandarin: 異或／异或 (yìhuò)
Estonian: välistav VÕI
Finnish: ehdoton tai, poissulkeva tai, eksklusiivinen tai
French: ou exclusif (fr)
Hungarian: kizáró vagy (hu)
Romanian: a realiza sau exclusiv

electrical engineering: logic gate

Chinese:
Mandarin: 異或門／异或门 (yìhuòmén)
Finnish: ehdoton tai -portti, poissulkeva tai -portti, eksklusiivinen tai -portti
Romanian: poartă sau exclusiv f

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Latin: ^{(please verify)} aut (la)

Verb

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.

Synonyms

⊻

Anagrams

rox

Portuguese

Noun

XOR m (plural XORs)

Alternative spelling of xor