"implicant" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: implicants [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} implicant (plural implicants)
  1. (propositional calculus) The hypothesis of an implication
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  2. (electrical engineering) On a Karnaugh map: a set of ones (whose quantity is a power of two) which are related by adjacency (i.e., the set is connected, if the Karnaugh map is considered to be a graph which "wraps around" its edges, like a torus; and all elements of the subgraph induced by the set have the same degree). Equivalently, in terms of Boolean algebra, a product term which, when true, always implies that the given Boolean function is true. Categories (topical): Electrical engineering, Logic
    Sense id: en-implicant-en-noun-CH79f8kA Disambiguation of Logic: 15 85 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 97 Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 5 95 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 3 97 Topics: business, electrical, electrical-engineering, electricity, electromagnetism, energy, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: prime implicant [engineering, physical-sciences, natural-sciences, electrical, electricity, electrical-engineering, electromagnetism, energy, business, physics] Related terms: implicand

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