Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word BOOLEAN
BOOLEAN
Definitions of BOOLEAN
- Of or pertaining to the work of George Boole.
- (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.
- (logic, computing) A variable that can hold a single true/false (1/0) value.
- Alternative letter-case form of Boolean.
Number of letters
7
Is palindrome
No
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Examples of Using BOOLEAN in a Sentence
- The success and failure of a given block of code is used to direct further processing, whereas conventional languages would typically use boolean logic written by the programmer to achieve the same ends.
- In telecommunication, a convolutional code is a type of error-correcting code that generates parity symbols via the sliding application of a boolean polynomial function to a data stream.
- It pioneered many features that would become common in languages from the 1960s into the 1980s, including use of line numbers as both editing instructions and targets for branches, statements predicated by boolean decisions, and a built-in source-code editor that can perform instructions in direct or immediate mode, what they termed a conversational user interface.
- The pixels of each are combined using a program-selectable raster operation, a bit-wise boolean formula.
- It is often used when the search space is discrete (for example the traveling salesman problem, the boolean satisfiability problem, protein structure prediction, and job-shop scheduling).
- Type systems formalize and enforce the otherwise implicit categories the programmer uses for algebraic data types, data structures, or other data types, such as "string", "array of float", "function returning boolean".
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