The verb for carrying out a bitwise OR/AND operation

Solution 1:

Use

The most common form is like this, and you can drop bitwise if necessary in these examples:

When two values are combined, they are bitwise ORed together.

In the present tense:

Combine two values by bitwise ORing them.

Or:

Bitwise OR the two values.

Early citations

ORed and ANDed have been around for a long time in electronics and computing. The OED includes the verb OR, first documented in an IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin of 1970:

The outputs of all the drill sense transistors 12 are Ored together by diode Or's 18 and fed to the base of relay control transistor 20.

However, I found an earlier example at MIT in AIM-024: Arithmetic in LISP 1.5 by Michael Levin (April 28th, 1961):

If there is a negative sign, it is OR-ed into the P bit.

The verb AND is older, first documented in US Patent 2,995,727 issued to IBM for a Means For Comparing Wave Shapes (filing date: Oct 29, 1957, issue date: Aug 8, 1961):

The output terminal 53–1a of the comparison circuit 40A is ‘anded’ with the output terminal 53–1 from comparison circuit 40 by means of ‘and’ gate 55–1.

Solution 2:

While words like ANDed and ORed are easily understood, the technical terms for bitwise AND and OR operations are bitwise conjunction and bitwise disjunction respectively.

When two values A and B are combined (i.e. ANDed), their tags are conjoined bitwise.

But the usage is not popular enough and stands the risk of not being understood by all.

Solution 3:

When two values are combined, they are ORed together bitwise.

Or

When two values are combined, they are bitwise ORed together.

Here is an example

'ORed' is the past tense- I ORed them together.

The present tense in simply 'OR'- You must OR the two values together to obtain the result

Also note that besides the bitwise operations, logical operations treat the values of each operand as two single true/false values.