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Boolean

Pronunciation: /ˈbuːl.i.ən/

The English word “Boolean” has 3 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Of or pertaining to the work of George Boole.
  2. Pertaining to data items that can have “true” and “false” (or, equivalently, 1 and 0 respectively) as their only possible values and to operations on such values.

noun

  1. A variable that can hold a single true/false (1/0) value.

Etymology

From Boole + -ean, named after English mathematician, philosopher and logician George Boole (1815–1864).

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