DICT.TW Dictionary Taiwan
3.85.63.190

Search for:
[Show options]
[Pronunciation] [Help] [Database Info] [Server Info]

2 definitions found

From: Taiwan MOE computer dictionary

 excluded
 已排除

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ex·clude v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excluded; p. pr. & vb. n. Excluding.]
 1. To shut out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; -- the opposite to admit; as, to exclude a crowd from a room or house; to exclude the light; to exclude one nation from the ports of another; to exclude a taxpayer from the privilege of voting.
    And none but such, from mercy I exclude.   --Milton.
 2. To thrust out or eject; to expel; as, to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs.
 Excluded middle. logic The name given to the third of the  “three logical axioms,” so-called, namely, to that one which is expressed by the formula: “Everything is either A or Not-A.” no third state or condition being involved or allowed. See Principle of contradiction, under Contradiction.