nonidentity

English

Alternative forms
  • non-identity

Etymology

non- +‎ identity

Noun

nonidentity (plural nonidentities)

  1. Difference, distinction; failure to be identical.
    • 1993, Ordway Hilton, Scientific Examination of Questioned Documents‎, →ISBN, page 395:
      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. (mathematics) An operator which modifies its operand, and which therefore is not the identity.
    • 1995, Thomas A. Whitelaw, Introduction to Abstract Algebra‎, →ISBN, page 99:
      Moreover, in a group of prime order p, every non-identity element (i.e. every element other than 1) has period p.

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