identity (EN)
Nafnorð

Nafnorð “identity”

sg. identity, pl. identities or uncountable
  1. sjálfsmynd
    After moving to a new country, she struggled to maintain her cultural identity.
  2. samsemd (þegar tveir hlutir eru það sama)
    The identity of these two samples required laboratory testing.
  3. persónuleiki (sá sem maður sýnir öðrum)
    He assumed a false identity to escape from the police.
  4. jöfnuður (í stærðfræði)
    In trigonometry, sin^2(x) + cos^2(x) = 1 is a fundamental identity.
  5. samsemdarfall (í stærðfræði)
    The identity function in programming simply returns the value that was passed as an argument.
  6. samsemdarstak (í stærðfræði)
    In matrix multiplication, the identity matrix leaves other matrices unchanged when it is used as a multiplier.