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Boolean data type
A Boolean data type is a data type with exactly two values, true and false, named for George Boole, who encoded logic as 1 and 0 around 1850.
Boolean function
A Boolean function, also called a switching function, is a function whose inputs and output are 0 or 1, basic to propositional logic, digital circuit design, and cryptography.
Boolean lattice
A Boolean lattice is a distributive lattice in which every element has a unique complement, exemplified by the power set of a set ordered by inclusion, where meet is intersection and join is union.
Boolean network
A Boolean network is a discrete dynamical model in which each component carries a binary on/off state, and logical rules determine how those states change over time.
Boolean Pythagorean triples problem
A Ramsey theory problem posed by Ronald Graham asking whether the positive integers can be two-colored with no monochromatic Pythagorean triple, answered no in 2016 by Heule, Kullmann, and Marek.
Boolean ring
A Boolean ring is a ring in which every element satisfies x² = x; such rings are automatically commutative of characteristic 2 and are definitionally equivalent to Boolean algebras.
Boolean satisfiability problem
The Boolean satisfiability problem (SAT) asks whether a Boolean formula has an assignment of true and false values that makes it true, and was the first problem proved NP-complete.
Boolean-valued model
A Boolean-valued model is a mathematical structure in which statements take truth values in a complete Boolean algebra, developed by Scott and Solovay as a presentation of forcing.
Boolymon
Boolymon, aka snakechildpain, born 2004, is an underground American rapper-producer in the dark plugg/terror plugg scene; known for Megalodon (2025), the outstanding EP, and a 2024-2025 DistroKid streaming removal dispute.
Boom (Doctor Who)
"Boom" is the third episode of Doctor Who's 2024 series, written by returning ex-showrunner Steven Moffat, broadcast 18 May 2024: the Fifteenth Doctor is trapped on a landmine on Kastarion 3, fighting a war driven by a murderous Villengard algorithm, with Varada Sethu as Anglican Marine Mundy Flynn.
Boom bap
Boom bap: New York hip-hop production style and subgenre of the late 1980s-1990s golden age, named for its kick (boom) and snare (bap), built on sampled vinyl loops, MPC swing, and 85-95 BPM grooves.
Boom Beach
Boom Beach is Supercell's free-to-play combat strategy game (soft-launched November 2013) set in a tropical archipelago where players fight the Blackguard, run Task Force Operations, and since April 2026 play on Windows PC.
Boom Overture
Boom Overture, also called the Boom Technology Overture, is a proposed supersonic airliner carrying 64 to 80 passengers at Mach 1.7, with 130 orders from United, American, and Japan Airlines.
Boom Technology
Boom Technology, known as Boom Supersonic, is an American aerospace startup founded by Blake Scholl in 2014 in Denver, Colorado, developing the Overture supersonic passenger airliner.
Boom XB-1
Boom XB-1 is a one-third-scale supersonic demonstrator built by Boom Supersonic to validate designs for its planned Overture airliner, first flying in March 2024 at Mojave, California.
Boom!
Boom! (1968) is Joseph Losey's drama adapted by Tennessee Williams from The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton; a flop that became a John Waters-endorsed camp cult film.
Boombastic (song)
Boombastic (Mr. Boombastic) is a 1995 reggae fusion single by Shaggy from the album Boombastic, sampling King Floyd's Baby Let Me Kiss You; it debuted at UK No. 1, hit US No. 3, and was certified platinum.
Boombox
A boombox, also known as a ghetto blaster, is a portable stereo with radio, cassette recorder, and two large speakers, central to 1970s and 1980s hip-hop.
Boombox Cartel
Boombox Cartel is a Los Angeles bass music act founded in 2012 by Mexico-born producers Americo Garcia and Jorge Medina, known for the 2015 single "B2U".
Boomer Esiason
Boomer Esiason (Norman Julius Esiason), left-handed NFL quarterback for Bengals, Jets, Cardinals; 1988 AP MVP with 3,572 yards, 28 TDs; later CBS broadcaster and cystic fibrosis foundation founder.
Boomer v. Atlantic Cement Co.
Boomer v. Atlantic Cement Co., 26 N.Y.2d 219 (1970), New York Court of Appeals nuisance case: cement plant near Albany could avoid an injunction by paying $185,000 in permanent damages, creating the classic liability-rule remedy.
Boomerang
A boomerang is a curved, airfoil-shaped wooden throwing implement associated with Aboriginal Australians, an internationally recognized symbol of Australia, though most designs do not return to the thrower.
Boomerang (1992 film)
Boomerang is a 1992 American romantic comedy directed by Reginald Hudlin, starring Eddie Murphy as a womanizing executive whose new boss treats him the same way.
Boomerang (2019 film)
Boomerang (பூமராங்) is a 2019 Tamil action thriller written, produced and directed by R. Kannan, starring Atharvaa in a double role with Megha Akash and Indhuja. Released 8 March 2019, its plot follows a face-transplant recipient hunted by his donor's enemies.
Boomerang (2024 German-Iranian film)
Boomerang (2024) is an 83-minute German-Iranian drama, the feature debut of Tehran-based artist Shahab Fotouhi, following a crumbling marriage and a teenage romance in Tehran; it premiered at Venice's Giornate degli Autori and won Best Film and Best Score at the Otranto Film Festival.
Boomerang (2024 Indian film)
Boomerang (বুমেরাং), 2024 Bengali-language Indian sci-fi comedy directed by Sauvik Kundu, starring Jeet and Rukmini Maitra, adapted from the play Punoray Ruby Ray, released 7 June 2024.
Boomerang (TV network)
Boomerang is an all-animation cable network and streaming brand launched April 1, 2000 by Turner as a Cartoon Network spinoff for classic Hanna-Barbera and Warner Bros. cartoons, targeting ages 4-7, reaching over 144 million homes and now owned under Skydance.
Boomerang Generation
Boomerang generation: young adults who leave the family home and return to their parents, often for financial reasons. Also called boomerang kids; measured by rising coresidence rates in the US, OECD, UK, and Australia.
Boomerang Nebula
The Boomerang Nebula is a pre-planetary nebula about 5,000 light-years away in Centaurus, cooled to roughly 1 kelvin by its expanding gas, colder than the cosmic background.
Boomhauer
Boomhauer (Jeffrey Dexter Boomhauer III) is a King of the Hill character voiced by Mike Judge, Hank Hill's fast-talking, nearly incomprehensible bachelor friend, a Texas Ranger revealed only in the finale, now a stepfather in the Hulu revival.