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The binary operator inclusive or, true if one at least one of two inputs is true. In infix notation, it has values
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Inclusive or; either one proposition or the other is true or both
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Orissa, a state of India
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A logical gate to implement inclusive or
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Olympic Record
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Connects at least two words, phrases, clauses, etc. that each could make a sentence true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is "either...or"

The sporophyte foot is also characteristic: it is very broad and more or less lenticular or disciform, as broad or broader than the calyptra stalk , and is sessile on the calyptra base.

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Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms
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Before; ere

Sey ye never so, seyde Sir Bors, for many tymys or this she hath bene wroth with you, and aftir that she was the firste that repented hit..

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Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities
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Early (on)
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Earlier, previously
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Or something like that. Used to indicate the possibility that previously mentioned word may not be exactly correct in its applicability

What are you doing?! Are you trying to kill us or something?.

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{n} gold in heraldry
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{c} either
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A lexical symbol to implement inclusive or in a computer language
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operating room
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Oregon, a state of the United States of America
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{i} male or female name (Hebrew)
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allows you to include another search criteria in the search, but only one criteria must be present in the Case Details for it to appear in the Hitlist
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Or is commonly used metaphor for the Divine energy that generates and sustains the universe Ma'or, Ziv, He'arah
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You use or to give another alternative, when the first alternative is introduced by `either' or `whether'. Items like bread, milk and meat were either unavailable or could be obtained only on the black market Either you can talk to him, or I will I don't know whether people will buy it or not
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You use or to introduce something which is evidence for the truth of a statement you have just made. He must have thought Jane was worth it or he wouldn't have wasted time on her, I suppose. = otherwise
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a logical operator that produces a true result if either or both of its operands are true, and a false result otherwise
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In general -or is appended to words of Latin, and - er to those of English, origin
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a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations; "great care is taken to keep the operating rooms aseptic"
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You use or no between two occurrences of the same noun in order to say that whether something is true or not makes no difference to a situation. The next day, rain or no rain, it was business as usual
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A connector/term used in searching databases which indicates that for two statements/rules/criteria all records satisfying either one statement/rule criterion or both statements; rules/criteria should be selected (DB, Gr 5)
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[Heraldry; French gold] gold colored and represented in engraving by a white surface covered with small dots
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Yellow or gold color, represented in drawing or engraving by small dots
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You use or to introduce a comment which corrects or modifies what you have just said. The man was a fool, he thought, or at least incompetent There was nothing more he wanted, or so he thought
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Operational Requirement
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Evaluates args (which must be integral values) until an arg is true and then returns false false is returned if all args are false
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A Boolean operator that broadens a search by incorporating synonyms or alternate terms For example, doctors or nurses would retrieve everything that mentions doctors in addition to everything that mentions nurses See also operators
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Odds ratio
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The logical operator that combines two conditions when either one or both of the conditions can be true to retrieve a record
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A logical operator that requires that if one of the relational operators it connects is true, or if both are true the whole statement will evaluate as true Only if both of the relational operators are false, will the statement evaluate as false
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abbr Operator Recall
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It corresponds to either
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a state in northwestern United States on the Pacific
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A noun suffix denoting an act; a state or quality; as in error, fervor, pallor, candor, etc
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a reserved word used as a binary Boolean operator and in select statements 3 1, 3 4, A 1
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It often connects a series of words or propositions, presenting a choice of either; as, he may study law, or medicine, or divinity, or he may enter into trade
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this operator is used to combine search terms as well, but will display results with only one of the terms rather than two or three
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A noun suffix denoting an agent or doer; as in auditor, one who hears; donor, one who gives; obligor, elevator
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If you say that someone should do something or something unpleasant will happen, you are warning them that if they do not do it, the unpleasant thing will happen. She had to have the operation, or she would die. = otherwise
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Ere; before; sooner than
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finger ork empty;  ~ kanning to empty, to vacate oRe(k) there oRekâ(n) up to there oResk there oReskâ(n) up to there oskâ(n) up to then ost expectation, hope;  ~ kanning to hope, to cherish a hope; to relay (on smb ), to confide (in smb ); to depend (on smb ) oxa(s) (also oxa(da)r) so much; so many a (â) b c d D e f g gh h i (î) j k l m n o p r s Back to Main page
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It is correlative to - ee
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The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms
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You use or between two numbers to indicate that you are giving an approximate amount. Everyone benefited from limiting their intake of tea to just three or four cups a day Normally he asked questions, and had a humorous remark or two
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You use or to link two or more alternatives. `Tea or coffee?' John asked He said he would try to write or call as soon as he reached the Canary Islands Students are asked to take another course in English, or science, or mathematics
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1 The logical operator which has the property that A or B is true if either A is true or B is true
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or else: see else or other: see other or so: see so or something: see something. A logical operator that returns a true value if one or both operators are true. Gold, represented in heraldic engraving by a white field sprinkled with small dots. the written abbreviation of Oregon
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conj. connecting two alternatives; indicating the result in the case of failure to do the preceding action; restating or clarifying the first item mentioned
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The OR command allows several conditions to cause a transfer to the same output For example, OR is used to produce activation from either the left lever or right lever to produce a reinforcement Denoted by "!" and is always placed between two activated stimuli (e g , #R^RightLever ! #R^LeftLever: )
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Office of Research
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or WEAK STRONG
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A Boolean Operator OR is a word used between words to find documents containing either of the words For example: clinton or gore See also Boolean Logic, And,Not
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emphasis You use or no or or not to emphasize that a particular thing makes no difference to what is going to happen. Chairman or no, if I want to stop the project, I can The first difficulty is that, old-fashioned or not, it is very good
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between two terms indicates that either term would be acceptable This is usually good to use with closely synonymous terms, e g , cat OR feline
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Logical union of two sets of values. There are two forms, an exclusive or and an inclusive or
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You may ride either to London or to Windsor
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the other of two things -- " either from right to left or from left to right " (78)
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Organic reagents that are suitable for research applications
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A Boolean operation which yields 1 if any of its operands is a 1
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A particle that marks an alternative; as, you may read or may write, that is, you may do one of the things at your pleasure, but not both