entity
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Medieval Latin entitas, from Latin, present participle of esse, "to be".
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Noun [edit]
entity (plural entities)
- That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit. Often used for organisations which have no physical form.
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page ix
- It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities.
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page ix
- An existent something that has the properties of being real, and having a real existence.
- (computing) Anything about which information or data can be stored in a database; in particular, an organized array or set of individual elements or parts.
- The state or quality of being or existence.
- The group successfully maintains its tribal entity.
- Quotation: The policy of the government of the United States is to seek . . . to preserve Chinese territorial and administrative entity -- G.F.Kennan
Synonyms [edit]
- See also Wikisaurus:entity
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Translations [edit]
Something or somebody that exists as an individual unit
Something having a real existence
Being; existence
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