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nonidentities

nonidentities is the plural of nonidentity.

Meaning of nonidentity

Noun

nonidentity (plural nonidentities)

  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.1993, Ordway Hilton, Scientific Examination of Questioned Documents, →ISBN, page 395
  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.1995, Thomas A. Whitelaw, Introduction to Abstract Algebra, →ISBN, page 99

Questions about nonidentities

What is nonidentities the plural of?
Nonidentities is the plural of nonidentity.

Words near nonidentities in the dictionary

  1. nonidentification
  2. nonidentificational
  3. nonidentifications
  4. nonidentified
  5. nonidentifying
  6. nonidentities
  7. nonidentity
  8. nonidentity problem
  9. nonideological
  10. nonideologically
  11. nonideologized

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