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Tor vs Xor - What's the difference?

tor | xor |

As nouns the difference between tor and xor

is that tor is a craggy outcrop of rock on the summit of a hill while xor is the logic function exclusive OR (as opposed to inclusive OR), whose output is true only when exactly one of its inputs is true.

As an adjective tor

is alternative form of lang=en ("hard, difficult; strong; rich").

As an initialism TOR

is Terms of reference

As a proper noun Tor

is abbreviation of Toronto|lang=en.

As a conjunction xor is

or (but not both.

As a verb XOR is

to perform the XOR function upon.

tor

English

(wikipedia tor)

Etymology 1

Adjective

(en-adjective)
  • ("hard, difficult; strong; rich").

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) tor, ). It is not clear whether the Celtic forms were borrowed from Old English or vice versa. See also (tower).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A craggy outcrop of rock on the summit of a hill.
  • (South-West England) A hill.
  • * 1855 , Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho! , Tickor and Fields (1855), pages 104-105:
    • Bursdon and Welsford were then, as now, a rolling range of dreary moors, unbroken by tor or tree, or anything save few and far between a world-old furze-bank which marked the common rights of some distant cattle farm, and crossed then, not as now, by a decent road, but by a rough confused trackway, the remnant of an old Roman road from Clovelly dikes to Launceston.
  • * 1902 , , Chapter 9:
    • The moon was low upon the right, and the jagged pinnacle of a granite tor stood up against the lower curve of its silver disc.
  • * 2008 , Lydia Joyce, Shadows of the Night , Signet Eclipse (2008), ISBN 9780451223425, page 242:
    • She had slipped the letters into her pocket next to the packet of antique documents and had taken an umbrella—as the sky was ominous out over the distant tors —and strolled around the manor house and down the road toward the village.
  • (UK, dialect) A tower; a turret.
    • (Ray)

    Anagrams

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    xor

    English

    (wikipedia xor)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The logic function exclusive OR (as opposed to inclusive OR), whose output is true only when exactly one of its inputs is true.

    • Conjunction

    (English Conjunctions)
  • (rare) or (but not both)
  • * 2002 , "Rob Janssen", The rock argument'' (on Internet newsgroup ''alt.atheism )
    • The argument leads to the conclusion that an omnipotent being could rationally be able to do one xor the other and still be omnipotent.

    See also

    * and * or * nand * nor * not

    Anagrams

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