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truth table

noun

, Logic, Mathematics, Computers.
  1. a table that gives the truth-values of a compound sentence formed from component sentences by means of logical connectives, as AND, NOT, or OR, for every possible combination of truth-values of the component sentences.


truth table

noun

  1. a table, used in logic, indicating the truth-value of a compound statement for every truth-value of its component propositions
  2. a similar table, used in transistor technology, to indicate the value of the output signal of a logic circuit for every value of input signal
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of truth table1

First recorded in 1935–40
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Example Sentences

Fred Jones Jr., founder of the Southern Heritage Classic and a champion of Stein’s, a South Memphis restaurant where he and his friends, collectively known as The Truth Table, eat each week, has seen that stereotype play itself out.

At the suggestion of Mrs. U., he wrote The Progress of Error; Truth, Table Talk, Expostulation, Hope, Charity, Conversation, and Retirement were added, and the whole were pub. in one vol. in 1782.

Cowper's first volume of poems, containing "The Progress of Error," "Truth," "Table Talk," etc., is interesting chiefly as showing how the poet was bound by the classical rules of his age.

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