XOR

[ eks-awr ]

noun

1. a Boolean operator that returns a positive result when either but not both of its operands are positive.

Word History and Origins

Origin of XOR¹

(e)x(clusive) OR

Example Sentences

Sacramento County Sheriff’s deputies called Sunday night regarding a shooting in a Rio Linda home found Xor Xiong and Mau Lee Vue with gunshot wounds.

From Washington Times

The service is being run by a company called XOR Data Exchange, which says it can produce useful data faster by hearing from the victims instead of trolling the Dark Web, where it may already be too late by the time it appears.

From Reuters

Due to heavy security on the data, XOR says, the system may also allow breached companies to share the sensitive information without changing their privacy policies or waiting for the people exposed to opt in, as they must for credit monitoring.

From Reuters

Aaronson objected on his blog: “You can’t count it as a ‘success’ for IIT if it predicts that the cerebellum is unconscious, while at the same time denying that it’s a ‘failure’ for IIT if it predicts that a square mesh of XOR gates is conscious.”

From Scientific American

NQ Vault does not quite use ROT13, but as a hacker going by NinjaDoge24 discovered this weekend, it uses something just as simple: 8-bit XOR.

From Slate