# Operand vs Nonidentity - What's the difference?

operand | nonidentity |

## As nouns the difference between operand and nonidentity

is that operand is (mathematics|computing) a quantity to which an operator is applied (in $3 - x$, the operands of the subtraction operator are 3 and $x$) while nonidentity is difference, distinction; failure to be identical.

# operand

## English

### Noun

(en noun)
• (mathematics, computing) A quantity to which an operator is applied (in $3 - x$, the operands of the subtraction operator are 3 and $x$).
• * 1992 , Michael A. Miller, The 68000 Microprocessor Family: Architecture, Programming, and Applications (page 47)
• When the microprocessor decodes the JSR opcode, it stores the operand into the TEMP register and pushes the current contents of the PC (\$00 0128) onto the stack.

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# nonidentity

## English

### Alternative forms

*non-identity

### Noun

(nonidentities)
• Difference, distinction; failure to be identical.
• *{{quote-book, 1993, Ordway Hilton, Scientific Examination of Questioned Documents citation
• , passage=No scientific examiner would select only chance variations to establish nonidentity of two specimens when the fundamental points of identification stamp them as originating at a single source.}}
• (mathematics) An operator which modifies its operand, and which therefore is not the identity.
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• #### Derived terms

*nonidentity problem