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Meaning of exclusive or | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Exclusive disjunction: the use of or to indicate that of two predicates, one is true and one is false (without specifying which is which); contrasted with inclusive or, which does not imply that one must be false.
  2. Exclusive disjunction: the use of or to indicate that of two or more predicates, an odd number are true (without specifying which or how many); contrasted with inclusive or, which indicates only that one or more is true.
    broadly
  3. An exclusive disjunction; the result of applying the above-described exclusive or to two or more predicates; contrasted with an inclusive or, which is the result of applying an inclusive or.

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B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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