nonidentity

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nonidentity

noun nonidentities · non-identity

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.
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.

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@misc{nonidentity_2026,
  title = {nonidentity},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/nonidentity},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}