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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to a logical combinatorial system treating variables, such as propositions and computer logic elements, through the operators AND, OR, NOT, and XOR.
- adjective Of or relating to a data type or variable in a programming language that can have one of two values, true or false.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the work of George Boole.
- adjective logic, computing Pertaining to
data items that can have “true ” and “false ” (or, equivalently,1 and0 respectively) as their only possiblevalues and tooperations on such values. - noun logic, computing A
variable that can hold a singletrue /false (1 /0 ) value.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to a combinatorial system devised by George Boole that combines propositions with the logical operators AND and OR and IF THEN and EXCEPT and NOT
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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CreateInstance (RuntimeType type, Boolean publicOnly, Boolean noCheck, Boolean& canBeCached, RuntimeMethodHandle& ctor, Boolean& bNeedSecurityCheck) at System.
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CreateInstance (RuntimeType type, Boolean publicOnly, Boolean noCheck, Boolean& canBeCached, RuntimeMethodHandle& ctor, Boolean& bNeedSecurityCheck) at System.
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CreateInstance (RuntimeType type, Boolean publicOnly, Boolean noCheck, Boolean& canBeCached, RuntimeMethodHandle& ctor, Boolean& bNeedSecurityCheck) at System.
ASP.NET Forums 2008
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CreateInstance (RuntimeType type, Boolean publicOnly, Boolean noCheck, Boolean& canBeCached, RuntimeMethodHandle& ctor, Boolean& bNeedSecurityCheck) at System.
ASP.NET Forums 2008
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CreateInstance (RuntimeType type, Boolean publicOnly, Boolean noCheck, Boolean& canBeCached, RuntimeMethodHandle& ctor, Boolean& bNeedSecurityCheck) at System.
ScottGu's Blog 2008
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ERE.net 2009
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Lately, the word Boolean has become very popular among web sourcers and recruiters.
ERE.net 2009
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Lately, the word Boolean has become very popular among web sourcers and recruiters.
ERE.net 2009
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Lately, the word Boolean has become very popular among web sourcers and recruiters.
ERE.net 2009
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Lately, the word Boolean has become very popular among web sourcers and recruiters.
ERE.net 2009
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