| a table that gives the truth-values of a compound sentence formed from component sentences by means of logical connectives, as AND, NOT, or OR, for every possible combination of truth-values of the component sentences. |
| truth table n. Logic A table listing the truth-values of a proposition that result from all the possible combinations of the truth-values of its components. |
truth table logic
A table listing all possible combinations of inputs and the corresponding output of a Boolean function such as AND, OR, NOT, IMPLIES, XOR, NAND, NOR. Truth tables can be used as a means of representing a function or as an aid in designing a circuit to implement it.
(1998-07-30)