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idempotence

noun
/ˌɪdɛmˈpəʊtəns/UK/ˈaɪdəmˌpoʊtəns/US

Etymology

Latin roots, idem (“same”) + potence (“the quality of having power”) – literally, “the quality of having the same power”. Coined by 19th century American mathematician Benjamin Peirce in context of algebra.

  1. derived from potentia
  2. borrowed from potence
  3. compounded as idempotence — “idem + potence”

Definitions

  1. A quality of an action such that repetitions of the action have no further effect on the…

    A quality of an action such that repetitions of the action have no further effect on the outcome; the state of being idempotent.

    • The proof (Tables 9 and 10) of idempotence for both OR and AND follows from examining the definition of each operation under the constraint that both inputs have the same value.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for idempotence. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA