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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>xor</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../X.html" title="X"/><link rel="previous" href="XON.html" title="XON"/><link rel="next" href="xref.html" title="xref"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">xor</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="XON.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">X</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="xref.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="xor"/><dt xmlns="" id="xor"><b>xor</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/X´or/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/kzor/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">conj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Exclusive or. ‘A xor B’ means ‘A or B, but not
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both’. “<span class="quote">I want to get cherry pie xor a banana split.</span>”
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This derives from the technical use of the term as a function on
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truth-values that is true if exactly one of its two arguments is
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