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Conjunction
/ôr/,
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Used to link alternatives,
  1. Used to link alternatives
    • - a cup of tea or coffee
    • - are you coming or not?
    • - she couldn't read or write
    • - I either take taxis or walk everywhere
    • - it doesn't matter whether the theory is right or wrong
  2. Introducing a synonym or explanation of a preceding word or phrase
    • - the espionage novel, or, as it is known in the trade, the thriller
  3. Otherwise (used to introduce the consequences of something not being done or not being the case)
    • - hurry up, or you'll miss it all
  4. Introducing an afterthought, usually in the form of a question
    • - John's indifference—or was it?—left her unsettled
  5. Either
    • - to love is the one way to know or God or man
Noun
  1. Gold or yellow, as a heraldic tincture
    • - a bend or
  1. Oregon: a state in northwestern United States on the Pacific
  2. operating room: a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations; "great care is taken to keep the operating rooms aseptic"
  3. In linguistics, an agent noun (or nomen agentis) is a word that is derived from another word denoting an action, and that identifies an entity that does that action. For example, "driver" is an agent noun formed from the verb "drive". ...
  4. Iraq (or , Arabic: العراق Al-Irāq), officially the Republic of Iraq (Arabic: Jumhūrīyat Al-Irāq, كؤماری عێراق, Komara Îraqê) is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian ...
  5. Or is the debut album by the duo Golden Boy with Miss Kittin released in 2002. It includes the successful club single "Rippin Kittin" and a cover of "Campari Soda."
  6. Or is a medieval Crimean Tatar name for the northern region of Crimea currently known as Perekop Isthmus.
  7. In heraldry, Or (from the French word for gold) is the tincture of gold and, together with argent (silver), belongs to the class of light tinctures called "metals". In engravings and line drawings, it may be represented using a field of evenly spaced dots. ...
  8. The Forfeda are the "additional" letters of the Ogham alphabet, beyond the basic inventory of twenty signs. ...
  9. The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms; Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms; Early (on); Earlier, previously; Connects at least two words, phrases, clauses, etc. that each could make a sentence true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is "either... ...
  10. A heraldic term for the metal gold, generally (but not invariably) shown as yellow in flags, or sometimes as gold leaf or metallic paint, or in an embroidered design, as gold thread (see also ‘Appendix III’ and ‘rule of tincture’).
  11. Clinical Oncology Information Network (obs)
  12. Fast Idle Control is a valve that allows more air into the engine while it is cold. The Idle Control valve is opened or closed based on the engine temperature. ...
  13. i.e. the concept of making distinctions, and
  14. if you know the name of the filter, begin typing it directly into the input box. An autocomplete prompt will appear to help you key in the filter in the correct form.
  15. Exploring the Elements of Design (1st Edition)
  16. A Boolean operator that broadens a search by incorporating synonyms or alternate terms. For example, doctors or nurses would retrieve everything that mentions doctors in addition to everything that mentions nurses. See also operators.
  17. a Boolean operator used when conducting a search using multiple search-terms; is used for finding a set of articles that has either of the terms for which you are searching. OR is useful for connecting synonyms (e.g., heart attack OR myocardial infarction).
  18. An online internet shop, eshop, e-store, webstore, etc. where people can buy products or services.
  19. Odds Ratio. The probability of one group exhibiting a particular outcome compared with another group. For example, if the CR group had an odds ratio of 0.6 of getting stomach cancer relative to the AL-fed group, that would mean the CR group was only 60% as likely to get stomach cancer.
  20. Broadens the search. "North Carolina or Geography" will find all items about North Carolina and all items about geography. The computer will search for any document with EITHER of the two words.
  21. The heraldic metal color for gold or yellow.
  22. logical or boolean operator that creates the union set
  23. (operator): Boolean operator, using this operator to combine terms determines that at least one of the combined terms must appear.
  24. If you use OR between search terms, you will retrieve documents containing at least one of those terms. For example, the search
  25. Indicates that the requirement will be fulfilled when either condition is present in the student’s record.