entity

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit, often used for organizations…

   That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit, often used for organizations which have no physical form.

   • The organisational and administrative tasks involved in welding the railways into a single entity have also received much publicity.
   • 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.
2. 2

   The existence of something considered apart from its properties.

3. 3

   Anything about which information or data can be stored in a database

   Anything about which information or data can be stored in a database; in particular, one item in an organised array or set of individual elements or parts of the same type.

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   1. 4

      The state or quality of being or existence.

      • The group successfully maintains its tribal entity.
   2. 5

      A spirit, ghost, or the like.

      • [B]ut only too often séances degenerate into pure sorcery or necromancy, attracting all kinds of undeveloped and earth-bound entities.
   3. 6

      An alien lifeform that has no corporeal body.

The neighborhood

• synonymentity
• antonymnonentity
• antonymvariety
• neighborentity alignment
• neighborEntity List
• neighborentity relationship diagram
• neighborentity-relationship diagram
• neighborentity-relationship model
• neighborentity tag
• neighborduality
• neighborentirety
• neighboridentity
• neighborrelationship
• neighbortrinity
• neighborexistence