Boolean atom

plural Boolean atoms

1. human sciencesA logical proposition that cannot be derived from other logical propositions by a Boolean operation.

   If C is a Boolean atom, the claim is obviously true.

   1982, Krister Segerberg, Classical propositional operators, page 55

   2 more examples

   This is a consequence of a fact established earlier, namely, that any set C formed by choosing one formula from each Sⱼ must contain some formula πB and its conjugate, where B is a Boolean atom of X.

   1975, Sue Ann Toledo, Tableau systems for first order number theory and certain order theories, page 234

   A list is a bit vector if each of its members is a Boolean atom.

   1994, Specification and Verification of Gate-level VHDL Models of Synchronous and Asynchronous Circuits, page 4