idempotent
Speech parts
1. idempotent - Noun
2. idempotent - Adjective
3. idempotent - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
unchanged in value following multiplication by itself
Source: WordNetAntonyms
Phrases with the word
Examples
this matrix is idempotent
Both conjunction and disjunction are associative, commutative and idempotent in classical logic, most varieties of many-valued logic and intuitionistic logic.
For each idempotent e of the semigroup there is a unique maximal subgroup containing e. Each maximal subgroup arises in this way, so there is a one-to-one correspondence between idempotents and maximal subgroups.
An idempotent semiring (also sometimes called a dioid) is a semiring whose addition (not multiplication) is idempotent.
As in the example above, reading data usually has no side effects, so it is idempotent (in fact nullipotent).
Canceling an order is idempotent, because the order remains canceled no matter how many requests are made.