TRUTH TABLE Definition & Meaning

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truth table

noun

Logic, Mathematics, Computers.

a table that gives the truth-values of a compound sentence formed from component sentences by means of logical connectives, as AND, NOT, or OR, for every possible combination of truth-values of the component sentences.

truth table

noun

a table, used in logic, indicating the truth-value of a compound statement for every truth-value of its component propositions
a similar table, used in transistor technology, to indicate the value of the output signal of a logic circuit for every value of input signal

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Origin of truth table¹

First recorded in 1935–40

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Fred Jones Jr., founder of the Southern Heritage Classic and a champion of Stein’s, a South Memphis restaurant where he and his friends, collectively known as The Truth Table, eat each week, has seen that stereotype play itself out.

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At the suggestion of Mrs. U., he wrote The Progress of Error; Truth, Table Talk, Expostulation, Hope, Charity, Conversation, and Retirement were added, and the whole were pub. in one vol. in 1782.

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Cowper's first volume of poems, containing "The Progress of Error," "Truth," "Table Talk," etc., is interesting chiefly as showing how the poet was bound by the classical rules of his age.

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