identity
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Learned borrowing from Vulgar Latin identitas (“‘sameness’”) < identicus (“‘the same’”) < Latin idem (“‘the same’”). See identical and idem.
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /aɪˈdentəti/
[edit] Noun
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identity (plural identities)
- The sameness some individuals share to make up the same kind or universal.
- The difference or character that marks off an individual from the rest of the same kind.
- A name or persona—the mask or appearance one presents to the world—by which one is known.
- This criminal has taken on several identities
- Knowledge of who one is.
- I've been through so many changes, I have no sense of identity.
- This nation has a strong identity.
- (algebra, computing) Any function which maps all elements of its domain to themselves.
- (algebra) An element of an algebraic structure which, when applied to another element under an operation in that structure, yields this, second element.
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[edit] Translations
the sameness some individuals share to make up the same kind or universal
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the difference or character that marks off an individual from the rest
name or persona
knowledge of who one is
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algebra: function
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algebra: element
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[edit] External links
- identity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- identity in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
