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Bool′ean ring′, [Math.]
- Mathematicsa nonempty collection of sets having the properties that the union of two sets of the collection is a set in the collection and that the relative complement of each set with respect to any other set is in the collection. Cf. algebra of sets.
- 1935–40; named after German. Boole; see -an
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