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idempotency en · NOUN

Etymology

From Latin roots, idem (“same”) + potency (“power”).

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Idempotence.
    • The electron number constraint unlike the idempotency constraint can be represented by a single equation. For this reason, one can properly incorporate this constraint using a Lagrange multiplier and defining an effective chemical potential 1997, Christopher Alan White, The Development of Ab Initio Methods for the Treatment of Large Molecules: