idempotency

English

Noun

idempotency (uncountable)

1. Idempotence.
   • 1997, Christopher Alan White, The Development of Ab Initio Methods for the Treatment of Large Molecules:

     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