Conformable to fact; in accordance with the actual state of things; correct; not false, erroneous, inaccurate, or the like; as, a true relation or narration; a true history; a declaration is true when it states the facts.
Consistent with fact or reality; not false or erroneous.
A boolean constant which is represented by the integer value, -1.
consistent with fact or reality; not false; "the story is true"; "it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true"- B. Russell; "the true meaning of the statement"
1. The canonical true value, . 2. Any object other than the unique false value, .
Opposite of false. In a software program, when a condition is true, the actions governed by the condition will be performed. In C, true is implied by a non-zero value.
A result for a condition. It would be stored in memory as the opposite of false, i.e. not zero. See also False and Data Types.
any object that is not false and that is used to represent the success of a predicate test. See
boolean value, the opposite of FALSE. Anything other than 0 is read as TRUE. See also YES.
In Unix-like operating systems, true is a command whose only function is to always return the value 0, which is regarded by the shell as the logical value true. It is usually employed in conditional statements and loops of shell scripts where Boolean conditions are given as the return value of a program.