entity

English Online Dictionary. What means entity‎? What does entity mean?

English

Etymology

From the Medieval Latin entitās, from ēns (“being”) (stem: ent-) + -tās (compare essentia), see there for more information.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛn.tɪ.ti/

Noun

entity (plural entities)

1. That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit, often used for organizations which have no physical form.
2. The existence of something considered apart from its properties.
3. (databases) 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.
4. The state or quality of being or existence.

5. A spirit, ghost, or the like.
6. (science fiction) An alien lifeform that has no corporeal body.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:entity

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See also

• duality
• trinity
• relationship

Further reading

• entity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “entity”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “entity”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “entity” (US) / “entity” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
• “entity”, in Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
• “entity”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛntɪtɪ]

Noun

entity

1. inflection of entita:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural