Wry neck, or torticollis, is a painfully twisted and tilted neck. The top of the head generally tilts to one side while the chin tilts to the other side. This condition can be congenital (present at birth) or acquired. It can also be the result of damage to the neck muscles or blood supply. Wry neck sometimes goes away without treatment.
In the quaternions, 0 is the additive identity. In the ring of functions from R to R, the function mapping every number to 0 is the additive identity. In the additive group of vectors in Rn, the origin or zero vector is the additive identity.
The additive identity property says that if you add a real number to zero or add zero to a real number, then you get the same real number back. The number zero is known as the identity element, or the additive identity. Here are some examples of the additive identity with real numbers: