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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A logical operator that returns a true value if one, but not both, of its operands is true.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun logic The connective "exclusive or".
  • noun electrical engineering A logic gate that implements "exclusive or".
  • noun programming The symbolic representation that implements "exclusive or".
  • verb transitive, computing To perform the XOR function upon.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Short for exclusive OR.]

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