ENTITY: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
| Pronunciation: | | 'entitee
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| Matching Terms: | | Entitative, entitle, entitled, entitlement, Entitule, entity-relationship diagram, entity-relationship model
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 WordNet Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | [n] that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own physical existence (living or nonliving) |
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| | Synonyms: | | physical thing |
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| | See Also: | | anticipation, body of water, building block, causal agency, causal agent, cause, content, depicted object, enclosure, essential, expanse, imaginary place, inessential, location, matter, natural enclosure, necessary, necessity, nonessential, object, part, physical object, piece, requirement, requisite, sky, subject, substance, thing, unit, variable, water | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \En"ti*ty\, n.; pl. {Entities}. [LL. entitas, fr. L. ens,
entis, thing, prop. p. pr. of esse to be: cf. F. entit['e].
See {Essence}, {Is}.]
A real being, whether in thought (as an ideal conception) or
in fact; being; essence; existence.
Self-subsisting entities, such as our own personality.
--Shairp.
Fortune is no real entity, . . . but a mere relative
signification. --Bentley.
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| Legal Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | A person or legally recognized organization. |
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| | Related Terms: | | an existence, article, being, body, creature, critter, ens, entelechy, esse, essence, existence, existent, individual, integer, integral, integrate, item, life, material, materiality, matter, module, monad, object, occurrence, organism, person, persona, personality, point, presence, quantity, quiddity, quintessence, single, singleton, something, soul, stuff, subsistence, substance, substantiality, sum, system, thing, totality, unit |
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