prime implicant

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Noun

1. {{lb|en|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 [[literal]]s will yield a product term which is not an implicant (but beware: on a Karnaugh map it would appear "maximal").
2. {{lb|en|electrical engineering}} A group of related 0's (implicant) on a Karnaugh map which is not subsumed by any other implicant (of 0's) in the same map.

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