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additive identity

–noun Mathematics.
an element that when added to a given element in a specified set leaves that element unchanged, as zero in the real-number system.

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1955–60
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additive identity  
n.  An element that in a given mathematical system leaves unchanged any element to which it is added.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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