Boolean ring

noun Mathematics.

a nonempty collection of sets having the properties that the union of two sets of the collection is a set in the collection and that the relative complement of each set with respect to any other set is in the collection.

Compare algebra of sets.

Origin of Boolean ring

1935–40; named after G. Boole; see -an

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