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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

"The myth that golf is exclusive or inaccessible is not the reality on the ground," he argues, though he notes barriers still exist - including cost and perception.

From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026

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

From Scientific American ● Mar. 7, 2023

“I don’t think these are mutually exclusive or competing conversations,” said Anthony Wright, executive director of the advocacy group Health Access.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 2022

By its compliance with the Congressional distribution of exclusive and concurrent original jurisdiction, the Court has tacitly sanctioned the power of Congress to make such jurisdiction exclusive or concurrent as it may choose.

From The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 by Edward Samuel Corwin