Usually means: Produces same result when repeated.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word idempotent:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. idempotent: Merriam-Webster
  2. idempotent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. idempotent: Collins English Dictionary
  4. idempotent: Vocabulary.com
  5. idempotent: Wordnik
  6. idempotent: Wiktionary
  7. idempotent: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. idempotent: Dictionary.com
  9. Idempotent (ring theory), Idempotent (software), Idempotent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. idempotent: Rhymezone
  11. idempotent: FreeDictionary.org
  12. idempotent: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  13. idempotent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. idempotent: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. idempotent: Glossary of research economics

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. idempotent: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. idempotent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Idempotent: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. idempotent, idempotent: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  3. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

(Note: See idempotents as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (idempotent)

adjective:  (mathematics, computing) (said of a function) Such that, when performed multiple times on the same subject, it has no further effect on its subject after the first time it is performed.
adjective:  (mathematics) (said of an element of an algebraic structure with a binary operation, such as a group or semigroup) Such that, when it operates on itself, the result is equal to itself.
adjective:  (mathematics) (said of a binary operation) Such that all of the distinct elements it can operate on are idempotent (in the sense given just above).
adjective:  (mathematics) (said of an algebraic structure) Having an idempotent operation (in the sense given above).
noun:  (mathematics) An idempotent element.
noun:  (mathematics) An idempotent structure.

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