| logical operation also logic operation n. An instruction in which the quantity being operated on and the results of the operation can each have two values. Logical operations include AND, OR, NAND, XOR, and NOR. |
logical operation
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(Electronics & Computer Science / Computer Science) Computing an operation involving the use of logical functions, such as and or or, that are applied to the input signals of a particular logic circuit
logical operation (l j  -k l) also logic operation A function on binary variables whose output is also a binary variable. Logical operations are the function of logic gates in digital circuits. Logical operations include AND, OR, NOT, and combinations of those operations. See more at Boolean algebra. |
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| Noun | 1. | logical operation - an operation that follows the rules of symbolic logic logic - the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference operation - (computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction); "it can perform millions of operations per second" |
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