entity

entity

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈen.tɪ.ti/

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Noun

entity (plural entities)

1. That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit. Often used for organisations which have no physical form.
   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, 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.

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, an organised array or set of individual elements or parts.
4. The state or quality of being or existence.

   The group successfully maintains its tribal entity.

5. A spirit, ghost, or the like.
   • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 231:

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

6. (science fiction) An alien lifeform that has no corporeal body.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:entity

Derived terms

• entitative
• entity-relationship diagram
• entity relationship diagram
• entity-relationship model
• entity tag
• first-class entity
• geopolitical entity
• legal entity
• molecular entity
• nonentity
• second-class entity
• third-class entity

 

Collocations

Collocations

• legal entity
• single entity
• separate entity
• political entity
• public entity
• governmental entity
• corporate entity
• independent entity
• foreign entity
• unknown entity
• evil entity

Translations

that which exists as an individual unit

Arabic: كِيَان‎ m (kiyān) Bulgarian: същество́ (bg) n (sǎštestvó) Chinese: Mandarin: 實體／实体 (zh) (shítǐ), 整體／整体 (zh) Czech: entita (cs) f Esperanto: ento Finnish: olento (fi), olio (fi), kokonaisuus (fi), entiteetti (fi) French: entité (fr) f Georgian: არსება (arseba), ობიექტი (ka) (obiekṭi) German: Wesen (de) n Gujarati: અસ્તિત્વ (astitva) Hebrew: יְשׁוּת‎ (he) f (yeshút) Hindi: अस्तित्वी f (astitvī) Irish: aonán m, eintiteas m Italian: soggetto (it) m, entità (it) f Japanese: 実体 (ja) (じったい, jittai) Korean: 실재 (ko) (siljae) Lithuanian: subjektas (lt), esybė (lt) Maori: hinonga, rangatōpū (Refers to a business entity) Polish: jednostka (pl) f, istnienie (pl) n Portuguese: entidade (pt) f Russian: существо́ (ru) n (suščestvó), объе́кт (ru) m (obʺjékt) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ентѝте̄т m Roman: entìtēt (sh) m Spanish: entidad (es) Ukrainian: об'є́кт (obʺjékt) Urdu: ہستی‎ (hasti) Welsh: endid m

something that has properties of being real

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Czech: entita (cs) f Esperanto: ento Finnish: olio (fi), olento (fi), entiteetti (fi) French: entité (fr) f Georgian: არსი (arsi) Italian: entità (it) f Maori: hinonga Polish: istnienie (pl) n Portuguese: entidade (pt) f Russian: су́щность (ru) f (súščnostʹ) Spanish: entidad (es) Ukrainian: су́тність (sútnistʹ)

computing: anything about which data can be stored

Finnish: entiteetti (fi), tietokohde, kohde (fi) French: entité (fr) f Georgian: ერთეული (erteuli) German: Entität (de) f Greek: οντότητα (el) f (ontótita) Irish: aonán m Italian: elemento (it) m Russian: су́щность (ru) f (súščnostʹ)

state or quality of existence

Bulgarian: съществу́ване (bg) n (sǎštestvúvane) Esperanto: ento Finnish: olemassaolo (fi) Georgian: ყოფიერება (q̇opiereba) Italian: esistenza (it) f Polish: istnienie (pl) n Russian: существова́ние (ru) n (suščestvovánije), бытие́ (ru) n (bytijé)

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German: (please verify) Wesen (de) n, (please verify) Wesenheit (de) f, (please verify) Dasein (de) n

See also

• duality
• trinity
• relationship

Further reading

• entity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• entity at OneLook Dictionary Search
• “entity”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
• “entity” (US) / “entity” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
• “entity” in Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
• “entity” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛntɪtɪ]

Noun

entity

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