exclusive or
Noun
Meaning
(logic, computing) Exclusive disjunction: the use of or to indicate that of two predicates, one is true and one is false (without specifying which is which); contrasted with inclusive or, which does not imply that one must be false.
(logic, computing, more generally) Exclusive disjunction: the use of or to indicate that of two or more predicates, an odd number are true (without specifying which or how many); contrasted with inclusive or, which indicates only that one or more is true.
(logic, computing) An exclusive disjunction; the result of applying the above-described exclusive or to two or more predicates; contrasted with an inclusive or, which is the result of applying an inclusive or.
exclusive-or (plural exclusive-ors)
Alternative spelling of exclusive or
Alternative names
exclusive-or
Examples
That no man, or set of men, are entitled to exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration of public services; which, not being descendible, neither ought the offices of magistrate, legislator, or judge to be hereditary.
I don't believe any religion should be exclusive or feel superior in any way, or be judgmental. It should be a quiet, private thing.
I believe we're making a mistake if we regard job creation and job safety as mutually exclusive or inherently in conflict; they can and they must go hand-in-hand.
As with any stream cipher, these can be used for encryption by combining it with the plaintext using bit-wise exclusive-or ; decryption is performed the same way (since exclusive-or with given data is an involution ).
An example of the exclusive or is: You may have a bagel or a pastry, but not both.
IDEA derives much of its security by interleaving operations from different groups modular addition and multiplication, and bitwise exclusive or (XOR) which are algebraically "incompatible" in some sense.