Source Word
prime implicant
Noun
(electrical
engineering)
A
group
of
related
1's
(implicant)
on
a
Karnaugh
map
which
is
not
subsumed
by
any
other
implicant
in
the
same
map.
Equivalently
(in
terms
of
Boolean
algebra),
a
product
term
which
is
a
"minimal"
implicant
in
the
sense
that
removing
any
of
its
literals
will
yield
a
product
term
which
is
not
an
implicant
(but
beware:
on
a
Karnaugh
map
it
would
appear
"maximal").
Japanese Meaning
（電子工学）カーノー図において、他の包含項（インプリカント）に包含されない1のグループ、すなわち、各リテラルを削除するとその含意性が失われる最小限の含意項を指す。
Sense（1）
(electrical
engineering)
A
group
of
related
1's
(implicant)
on
a
Karnaugh
map
which
is
not
subsumed
by
any
other
implicant
in
the
same
map.
Equivalently
(in
terms
of
Boolean
algebra),
a
product
term
which
is
a
"minimal"
implicant
in
the
sense
that
removing
any
of
its
literals
will
yield
a
product
term
which
is
not
an
implicant
(but
beware:
on
a
Karnaugh
map
it
would
appear
"maximal").
（ plural ）
