"NAND" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: NANDs [plural]
Etymology: Blend of NOT + AND, by analogy with NOR reinterpreted as NOT + OR or negation + OR Etymology templates: {{blend|en|NOT|AND}} Blend of NOT + AND Head templates: {{en-noun}} NAND (plural NANDs)
  1. (logic) A binary operator composite of NOT AND; negation of AND function. Derived forms: XNAND Related terms: AND, OR, NOR, NOT, XOR, XNOR Translations (binary operator): NAND [feminine] (Catalan), malkaj (Esperanto), EI-JA (Finnish), see also eikä (Finnish), NON-ET [masculine] (French), NAND (nando) (Japanese), 否定論理積 (hitei ronriseki) (Japanese), TAK-DAN (Malay), NAND (Romanian), ȘI NEGAT (Romanian)

Inflected forms

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