multiplicative identity


nounMathematics.
  1. an identity that when used to multiply a given element in a specified set leaves that element unchanged, as the number 1 for the real-number system.

Origin of multiplicative identity

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First recorded in 1955–60

Words Nearby multiplicative identity

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