identity (EN)
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nom “identity”

sg. identity, pl. identities or uncountable
  1. identité
    After moving to a new country, she struggled to maintain her cultural identity.
  2. identité (condition d'être identique)
    The identity of these two samples required laboratory testing.
  3. identité (persona ou façade)
    He assumed a false identity to escape from the police.
  4. identité (équation)
    In trigonometry, sin^2(x) + cos^2(x) = 1 is a fundamental identity.
  5. fonction identité
    The identity function in programming simply returns the value that was passed as an argument.
  6. élément neutre (en mathématiques, préciser l'opération si nécessaire)
    In matrix multiplication, the identity matrix leaves other matrices unchanged when it is used as a multiplier.