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• exclusive OR
  exclusive OR

  XOR.
• exclusive or
  exclusive or

  noun

  logic the connective that gives the value true to a disjunction if one or other, but not both, of the disjuncts are true Compare inclusive or

exclusive OR

American  

1. XOR.

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exclusive or British  

noun

1. Also called: exclusive disjunction.  logic the connective that gives the value true to a disjunction if one or other, but not both, of the disjuncts are true Compare inclusive or

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exclusive OR exclusive or

The logical functions AND, inclusive OR, and exclusive OR, are formed in the Accumulator.

From Preliminary Specifications: Programmed Data Processor Model Three (PDP-3) October, 1960 by Digital Equipment Corporation

Now it doesn’t really have any exclusive or defining titles, yet Microsoft spent billions scooping up IPs with nothing to show for it.

From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026

Specific projects under the partnership have not yet been announced, but the pact is not exclusive or structured like a typical first-look deal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2024

“Maybe culture is not something that is super exclusive or difficult,” Bridges says.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 7, 2023

“Side switching across mutually exclusive or hostile ideologies is really not that uncommon,” said Daniel Koehler, a terrorism analyst in Germany who has written extensively about the transnational phenomenon.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 31, 2022

The sets at Saint Winifred’s were not very exclusive or very accurately defined; and one boy might, by virtue of different sympathies or accomplishments, belong to two or three sets at once.

From St. Winifred's, or The World of School by Earnshaw, H. C. (Harold C.)