exclusive or

Meaning

Noun

• Exclusive disjunction: the use of or to indicate that of two predicates, one is true and one is false (without specifying which is which);
• Exclusive disjunction: the use of or to indicate that of two or more predicates, an odd number are true (without specifying which or how many);
• An exclusive disjunction; the result of applying the above-described exclusive or to two or more predicates;

Origin

• exclusive + or.