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NOR
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Appendix:Variations of "nor"
Translingual
Symbol
1 3 Norway
mul NO ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 alpha-2
English
Etymology
From en nor. Reinterpreted as en NOT + en OR or en negation + en OR (see also en NAND, formed analogically).
Noun
A binary operator composite of NOT OR; negation of OR function.
en 0 NOR 0 is 1; 1 NOR anything is 0.
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
en Logic Gates - Definition, Types, Uses GeeksforGeeks https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/digital-logic/logic-gates/ 2025-08-30 The output state of the NOR gate will be high (1) when all the inputs are low (0). NOR gate returns the complement result of the OR gate. https://web.archive.org/web/20250911013744/https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/digital-logic/logic-gates/
en nucleolus organiser region.
+ NOR Truth Table Input OutputA B 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0
Antonyms
en OR
Derived terms
en XNOR
Translations
NOT OR
Esperanto: eo malaŭ
Finnish: fi EI-TAI, fi TAI-EI, fi NOR
French: fr NON-OU m
Japanese: ja NOR noa, ja 否定論理和 hitei ronriwa
Malay: ms TAK-ATAU
Romanian: ro SAU NEGAT, ro NOR, ro NOT OR
See also
en AND
en OR
en NAND
en NOT
en XOR
Anagrams
en nor NRO RON Ron orn ron