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Or Very Common

Or has 13 different meanings across 4 categories:

Noun · Conj · Proper Noun · Prep

Definitions
Noun
1

a state in northwestern United States on the Pacific

2

a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations

"great care is taken to keep the operating rooms aseptic"

3

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

4

Initialism of operating room.

5

Alternative form of OR

6

The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.

Adjective
1

Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.

Adverb
1

Early (on).

Conj
1

Inclusive or; either one proposition or the other is true or both.

2

Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either [ …

Proper Noun
1

Oregon, a state of the United States of America.

2

A surname​.

Prep
1

Before; ere. Followed by "ever" or "ere".

See Also
conjunction either and inclusive or xor not nor logical
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
hospital room
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