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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: And \And\, conj. [AS. and akin to OS endi, Icel. enda, OHG. anti, enti, inti, unti, G. und, D. en OD ende. Cf {An} if {Ante-}.] 1. A particle which expresses the relation of connection or addition. It is used to conjoin a word with a word a clause with a clause, or a sentence with a sentence. Note: a It is sometimes used emphatically; as ``there are women and women,'' that is two very different sorts of women. b By a rhetorical figure, notions, one of which is modificatory of the other are connected by and as ``the tediousness and process of my travel,'' that is the tedious process, etc.; ``thy fair and outward character,'' that is thy outwardly fair character, --Schmidt's Shak. Lex. 2. In order to -- used instead of the infinitival to especially after try come go At least to try and teach the erring soul. --Milton. 3. It is sometimes in old songs, a mere expletive. When that I was and a little tiny boy. --Shak. 4. If though. See {An}, conj. [Obs.] --Chaucer. As they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs. --Bacon. {And so forth}, and others and the rest; and similar things and other things or ingredients. The abbreviation, etc (et cetera), or &c., is usually read and so forth. From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: AND(Or "conjunction") The {Boolean} function which is true only if all its arguments are true. The {truth table} for the two argument AND function is: A | B | A AND B --+---+--------- F | F | F F | T | F T | F | F T | T | T AND is often written as an inverted V" in texts on logic. In the {C} programming language it is represented by the && (logical and) {operator}. (1997-11-15)
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