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nonidentity

noun

Etymology

From non- + identity.

  1. derived from ταὐτότης — “sameness”
  2. derived from idemptitās,identitās
  3. derived from identité
  4. inherited from ydemptite
  5. prefixed as nonidentity — “non + identity”

Definitions

  1. Difference, distinction

    Difference, distinction; failure to be identical.

    • No scientific examiner would select only chance variations to establish nonidentity of two specimens when the fundamental points of identification stamp them as originating at a single source.

  2. An operator which modifies its operand, and which therefore is not the identity.

    • Moreover, in a group of prime order p, every non-identity element (i.e. every element other than 1) has period p.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for nonidentity. 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