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NAND
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nand Nand nánd nǟnd
English
Etymology
en NOT AND, by analogy with en NOR reinterpreted as en NOT + en OR or en negation + en OR
Noun
en logic A binary operator composite of NOT AND; negation of AND function.
en William Bahn Boolean Algebra Laws—Delving Into Boolean Identities All About Circuits https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/technical-articles/boolean-identities/ 2022-08-04 The associativity of OR and AND is not at all obvious. It is tempting to assume that because OR and AND are commutative that they must be associative also. This is not the case, however, and some commutative Boolean operators are not associative. Examples include NAND and NOR. https://web.archive.org/web/20261005084434/https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/technical-articles/boolean-identities/ 5 October 2026
+ NAND Truth Table Input OutputA B 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0
Usage notes
Boolean variables and states (en AND, en OR, en NOT, en TRUE, en FALSE etc.) are commonly written in all uppercase in order to distinguish them from the ordinary uses of the words.
Antonyms
en AND
Derived terms
en XNAND
Translations
binary operator
Catalan: ca NAND f
Esperanto: eo malkaj
Finnish: fi EI-JA, fi JA-EI, see also fi eikä
French: fr NON-ET m
Japanese: ja NAND nando, ja 否定論理積 hitei ronriseki
Malay: ms TAK-DAN
Romanian: ro NAND, ro ȘI NEGAT
See also
en AND
en OR
en NOR
en NOT
en XOR
en XNOR
Anagrams
en adnn nDNA