disjunction (exclusive)

| *VEL2 [±…] xDisj(CL)

1) one of the 16 possible logical operators, The Languages of Science; the symbol of e. d. is a connective (Lat. aut), sometimes abbreviated by a Scheffer stroke (virgule); in English the word “or” may be either inclusive or exclusive, cf., ¶9-3-1 2) a semantic functor in MultiNet standing between virtually any two entities of the same sort forming an unordered exclusive disjunctive set, ¶5-2-7, figure 5; 3) negated e. d. is a characterization of the features on a segment being that relation between the elements of a set, except for the one complemented, ¶4-5-4; e. d. of a set’s complement is symbolized using the prefix “non-” on the label of a stippled box; 4) a grammatical feature being one of the interpretations of the English connective or suggesting exclusion, §9-3; as a grammatical feature of an identifier e. d. signifies that the corresponding item identified is one at the exclusion of another or others, ¶14-5-2, e.gg. either and any; 5) the e. d. of clauses is a grammatical transformation describing this relation between them, as in the phrase “not just any,” ¶14-5-9