or

Plural

ors

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.Alternative form of OR.

2. 2.The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.

   • In engraving, "Or" is expressed by dots.
   • The metals are gold and silver, these being termed "or" and "argent".

3. 3.The binary operator inclusive or, true if one at least one of two inputs is true. In infix notation.

   • The proof (Tables 9 and 10) of idempotence for both OR and AND follows from examining the definition of each operation under the constraint that both inputs have the same value.

Conj

Conjunction

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A word that links words, phrases, or clauses.

1. 1.Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc., each of which could make a passage true.

   • He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what.
   • You may stay or go.

2. 2.Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities.

3. 3.Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false).

   • It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold!
   • No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.

4. 4.An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or.

Adjective

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

1. 1.Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.

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• oral