Noun
(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
exclusive-or
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. George Mason
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. Catherine Hicks
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. Thomas Perez
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 ). Source: Internet
An example of the exclusive or is: You may have a bagel or a pastry, but not both. Source: Internet
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. Source: Internet