boolean
UK /ˈbuːl.i.ən/ · US /ˈbuli.ən/ adjective, noun
Forms booleans Boolian
- 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 and 0 respectively) as their only possible values and to operations on such values.
- noun (logic, computing) A variable that can hold a single true/false (1/0) value.
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Etymology
From Boole + -ean, named after English mathematician, philosopher and logician George Boole (1815–1864).
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