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logical operation also logic operation

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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.

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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

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logical operation  (lj-kl) 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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logical operation - an operation that follows the rules of symbolic logic logic operation 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"