IDENTITY ELEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does identity element mean? 

• IDENTITY ELEMENT (noun)
  The noun IDENTITY ELEMENT has 1 sense:

1. an operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates

  Familiarity information: IDENTITY ELEMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IDENTITY ELEMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

identity; identity element; identity operator

Context example:

the identity under numerical multiplication is 1

Hypernyms ("identity element" is a kind of...):

operator ((mathematics) a symbol or function representing a mathematical operation)