May 15, 2003

xor

/X´or/, /kzor/ conj.

Exclusive or. ‘A xor B’ means ‘A or B, but not both’. I want to get cherry pie xor a banana split. This derives from the technical use of the term as a function on truth-values that is true if exactly one of its two arguments is true.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:22 AM

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