Exclusive OR

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
XOR
Pronunciation
/ɪkˈsklusɪv ər/
Category
Computing
Related Field
Assembly

Examples in Context

  1. Confined to an exclusive or group.
  2. The exclusive or nonexclusive nature of the right to exploit the work covered by the license;
  3. None, one, or all of these files can exist, and it's up to the application to treat the files as mutually exclusive or incremental.
  4. The bitwise EXCLUSIVE OR, or XOR ( ^ ), produces a one in the output bit if one or the other input bit is a one, but not both.
  5. Depending on the options that your administrator sets on your source control provider, you can also check out files in exclusive or shared mode.

Other meanings of XOR

logical Exclusive OR (programming, IC design) Computing
logical Exclusive OR (programming) Computing
logical eXclusive OR Academic