Nonidentity

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    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. 2
    Difference, distinction; failure to be identical. wordnet
  3. 3
    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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"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."

Etymology

From non- + identity.

Related phrases

nonidentity problem

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