boolean
/ˈbuli.ən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.95 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to the work of George Boole.
adj
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.
adj
Alternative letter-case form of Boolean.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Boolean.
Example Sentences
- "Oh, Boolean operators! "Blue and ones"! Good idea!"
- "The associativity of OR and AND is not at all obvious. It is tempting to assume that because OR and AND are commutative that they must be associative also. This is not the case, however, and some commutative Boolean operators are not associative. Examples include NAND and NOR."
Etymology
From Boole + -ean, named after English mathematician, philosopher and logician George Boole (1815–1864).
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈbuli.ən/
- British English: /ˈbuːl.i.ən/