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Common
noun
•
In Healthcare:
Initialism
of
operating room
.
•
In Sciences:
Initialism
of
operations research
.
•
In Sports:
Initialism
of
Olympic
Record
.
•
In Anatomy:
Initialism
of
odorant
receptor
.
•
In Anatomy:
Initialism
of
olfactory
receptor
.
•
In Wiki:
Initialism
of
original
research.
•
In Logic:
The
binary operator
inclusive or
,
true
if one
at least
one of two
inputs
is
true
. In
infix notation
.
•
In Electronics & Logic:
Alternative
form of OR
•
In Heraldic tinctures:
The
gold
or
yellow
tincture
on a
coat of arms
.
conj
•
Connects
at least
two
alternative
words
,
phrases
,
clauses
,
sentences
, etc. each of which could make a
passage
true
. In
English
, this is the "
inclusive or
." The "
exclusive or
" is
formed
by "either […] or".
•
In Logic:
An
operator
denoting
the
disjunction
of two
propositions
or
truth values
.
There are
two
forms
, the
inclusive or
and the
exclusive or
.
•
Counts
the
elements
before and after as two
possibilities
.
•
Otherwise (a
consequence
of the
condition
that the
previous
is
false
).
•
Connects
two
equivalent
names
.
•
In Logic:
Inclusive or
; either one
proposition
or the other is
true
or both.
•
In Computer science:
A
lexical
symbol
to
implement
inclusive or
in a
computer language
.
•
In Electrical engineering:
A
logical
gate
to
implement
inclusive or
.
adv
•
Early
(on).
•
Earlier
,
previously
.
adj
•
In Heraldic tinctures:
Of
gold
or
yellow
tincture
on a
coat of arms
.
prep
•
Before;
ere
.
Followed by
"ever" or "ere".
name
•
Oregon
, a
state
of the
United States of America
.
•
Orissa
, a
state
of
India
.
Sourced from
Wiktionary
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See if you can use
or
in a sentence
Related
and
boolean
either
such
this
also
select
perhaps
maybe
etc
bitwise
only
but
even
gate
alternatively
into
nand
yes
any
instead
clause
whether
e.g.
used
plus
rather than
such as
instead of
let alone
operating room
hazard ratio
logic gates
as well as
More
Opposite
NOR
Rhymes
or
nor
sure
Moor
Soar
frore
Moore
phwoar
drawer
you're
rapport
evermore
Bangalore
nevermore
Lineage
or
English
or
Old French (842-ca. 1400)
aurum
Latin
oþþe
Old English (ca. 450-1100)
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