meaning of clause

1. A separate portion of a written paper, paragraph, or sentence; an article, stipulation, or proviso, in a legal document.
2. A subordinate portion or a subdivision of a sentence containing a subject and its predicate.
3. See Letters clause / close, under Letter.
4. clause 1. 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. A part of a SQL statement that does not constitute a full statement; for e. g. a "WHERE clause".
5. grammar an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence

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