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AND gate

A Dictionary of Computing | 2004 | 323 words | Copyright

AND gate An electronic logic gate whose output is logic 1 (true) only when all (two or more) inputs are logic 1, otherwise it is logic 0 (false). It therefore implements the logical AND operation on its inputs and has the same truth table. The diagram shows the usual circuit symbol and the truth table of a two-input gate.

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