or

Meanings

1. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc., each of which could make a passage true.
2. An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or.
3. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities.
4. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false).
5. Connects two equivalent names.

1. Alternative form of OR.

1. The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.

1. Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.

1. Early (on).
2. Earlier, previously.

1. Before; ere. Generally followed by "ever" or "e'er".

1. Inclusive or; either one proposition or the other is true or both.
2. A lexical symbol to implement inclusive or in a computer language.
3. A logic gate to implement inclusive or.

1. The binary operator inclusive or, true if one at least one of two inputs is true. In infix notation.

1. Initialism of operating room.
2. Initialism of official receipt.
3. Initialism of operations research.
4. Initialism of Olympic Record.
5. Initialism of odorant receptor.
6. Initialism of olfactory receptor.
7. Initialism of original research.
8. Initialism of other ranks.

1. Abbreviation of Oregon: a state of the United States.
2. Abbreviation of Orissa, former name of Odisha: a state of India.

1. A surname.

Etymology

From Middle English or; partially contracted from other, auther, from Old English āþor, āwþer, āhwæþer ("some, any, either"; > either); and partially from Middle English oththe, from Old English oþþe, from Proto-Germanic *efþau (“or”).

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