This matrix is idempotent.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

My first instinct would be to stop using the pretentious word "idempotent".    From Wordnik.com.  [reddit.com: what's new online!] Reference

Projector operators are not unitary, and are idempotent, which puts them outside standard quantum formalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dark, Misleading Force] Reference

A together with Š• and ·, along with 0 and 1, forms a ring with identity in which every element is idempotent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mathematics of Boolean Algebra] Reference

Perhaps one area in which controller-based structure is the way to go is when you have form posts that do something; the above code is all idempotent data extraction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Snell-Pym » The implementation of Web applications] Reference

His fascination with the possibilities of ordinary algebra led him to consider questions such as: What would logic be like if the idempotent law were replaced by the law X3 = X?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Algebra of Logic Tradition] Reference

The quick answer is "make your operations idempotent".    From Wordnik.com.  [MSDN Blogs] Reference

There are two closely related definitions for idempotent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coding Horror] Reference

GET redirect in order to keep all GET requests idempotent.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

But ensuring that your pages are idempotent is now up to you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet Sun] Reference

One approach is the "federated, idempotent, compensated" application.    From Wordnik.com.  [MSDN: .NET Framework Headlines] Reference

An idempotent design that maintains state and independence of operation.    From Wordnik.com.  [AI3:::Adaptive Information] Reference

Infrastructure as Code Manage con fi guration as idempotent Resources.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Be careful with this setting, as it can make the recipe no longer idempotent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Larkware Shots] Reference

Here's another bit of jargon for jargon's sake: the tropical semiring is idempotent.    From Wordnik.com.  [bit-player] Reference

Some easy operations are already idempotent, e.g. generating a thumbnail of an image.    From Wordnik.com.  [MSDN Blogs] Reference

According to the Http specification, any Http GET request should be idempotent and safe.    From Wordnik.com.  [ASP.NET Weblogs] Reference

Then we can make RDF statements about numbers (and numbers at idempotent points-in-time).    From Wordnik.com.  [Sean McGrath] Reference

The operations are idempotent, they can get repeated without leading to different results.    From Wordnik.com.  [Netvouz - new bookmarks] Reference

The only major required difference is that PUT must be idempotent, whereas POST need not be.    From Wordnik.com.  [reddit.com: what's new online!] Reference

Other operations are harder to make idempotent, e.g. adding "+1" to a number stored in a blob.    From Wordnik.com.  [MSDN Blogs] Reference

GET requests should be idempotent - they should not cause state changes within your application.    From Wordnik.com.  [idunno.org] Reference

The EJB 3 programming model encourages stateless, idempotent, and atomic or transactional design.    From Wordnik.com.  [SDN Featured Content] Reference

So the system must be idempotent - a repeated message will be recognized and the repeats ignored.    From Wordnik.com.  [MSDN: .NET Framework Headlines] Reference

DELETE is not idempotent; if it worked the first time, the second request would find nothing to delete.    From Wordnik.com.  [reddit.com: what's new online!] Reference

The purpose of this clause is to ensure that the command is idempotent-that is that it only runs if it needs to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phil Windley's Technometria] Reference

The purpose of this clause is to ensure that the command is idempotent -- that is that it only runs if it needs to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phil Windley's Technometria] Reference

A value is "idempotent under function foo" if the result of doing foo to the value results in the value right back again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coding Horror] Reference

Developers must learn idempotent functions so that multiple applications of an operation do not change its results, he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [SD Times Latest News] Reference

An application still may make this idempotent, by remembering when a particular request has run and ignoring additional copies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Closure operator: An idempotent unary operator on subsets of a given set, mapping a set to a larger set with a particular property.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Fortunately, disposal is idempotent, so the double-disposal is harmless (assuming you actually meant disposal and not destruction).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old New Thing] Reference

There's also the problem that the framework doesn't know when you intend a screen to be idempotent (i.e., repeatable) and when you don't.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet Sun] Reference

POST, which usually means "create a new resource", can also be used to invoke arbitrary processing and thus is neither safe nor idempotent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Netvouz - new bookmarks] Reference

Your declarations are fairly simple, and the Puppet engine implements them in an idempotent way (so it only does what needs doing.    From Wordnik.com.  [LXer Linux News] Reference

1056 is the area of the smallest non - idempotent functions from a set of 6 elements into itself. cube, a 4th power, and a 5th power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Netvouz - new bookmarks] Reference

˜idempotent™, the law xm =.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Am Wearing Stolen Socks] Reference

All the amazon WS APIs are idempotent.    From Wordnik.com.  [root labs rdist] Reference

+ is idempotent, commutative, and associative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Dreams Of Reality, 3] Reference

Rarely idempotent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference