Logical Or
Part of Math Symbols
Logical Or has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ∨
- Unicode
- U+2228
About this symbol
In logic ∨ means or, as in p ∨ q, p or q or both. It is usually traced to vel, the Latin word for an inclusive or, and Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead used it in Principia Mathematica.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LOGICAL OR
- Also called
- Vee, disjunction
- Type
- Maths symbol
- Unicode block
- Mathematical Operators
- Unicode group
- Logical and set operators
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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