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implicant

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
im-pli-cant
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The hypothesis of an implication

noun

On a Karnaugh map: a set of ones (whose quantity is a power of two) which are related by adjacency (i.e., the set is connected, if the Karnaugh map is considered to be a graph which "wraps around" its edges, like a torus; and all elements of the subgraph induced by the set have the same degree). Equivalently, in terms of Boolean algebra, a product term which, when true, always implies that the given Boolean function is true.

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What does implicant mean?
The hypothesis of an implication

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