idempotent
/aɪˈdempətənt/
Producing the same result regardless of how many times it's executed
idempotent in a sentence
“All our API endpoints should be idempotent to handle retries safely.”
Origin of idempotent
From Latin idem (same) + potens (powerful, able), literally having the same power
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