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clause
Law a section of a legal document such as a contract, will, or draft statute
clause [klȯz]
(computer science)
A part of a statement in the COBOL language which may describe the structure of an elementary item, give initial values to items in independent and group work areas, or redefine data previously defined by another clause.
1.(logic)clause - A logical formula in conjunctive normal form, which has the schema

p1 ^ ...^ pm => q1 V ... V qn.

or, equivalently,

~p1 V ... V ~pn V q1 V ... V qn,

where pi and qi are atoms.

The operators ~, ^, V, => are connectives, where ~ stands for negation, ^ for conjunction, V for disjunction and => for implication.
2.(grammar)clause - A part of a sentence (or programming language statement) that does not constitute a full sentence, e.g. an adjectival clause in human language or a WHERE clause in a SQL statement.


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But the clause relating to the money is too important to be passed over.
The Woman in White by Collins, Wilkie View in context
The memorandum-book begins with the well-known words saying that `the management of the Opera shall give to the performance of the National Academy of Music the splendor that becomes the first lyric stage in France' and ends with Clause 98, which says that the privilege can be withdrawn if the manager infringes the conditions stipulated in the memorandum-book.
The Phantom of the Opera by Leroux, Gaston View in context
The clause I now read is as plainly written in the Constitution as any other of its provisions:
Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address by Lincoln, Abraham View in context
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