entity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛn.tɪ.ti/
Forms: form: entities
Etymology: From the Medieval Latin entitās, from ēns (“being”) (stem: ent-) + -tās (compare essentia), see there for more information.
Senses: examples: text: The organisational and administrative tasks involved in welding the railways into a single entity have also received much publicity.
ref: 1951 April, D. S. Barrie, “British Railways: A Survey, 1948-1950”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 223:
text: 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.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page ix:
text: Weinersmith, who is best known for his webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, describes the polystate as a geopolitical entity in which multiple overlapping states exist — but each “state” consists of citizens who have agreed to the laws of a single non-geographic state; typical geographically-bound nations, or traditional “geostates”, would be replaced by “polystates”, which are collections of “anthrostates”.
ref: 2014 June 12, George Dvorsky, “12 Futuristic Forms of Government That Could One Day Rule the World”, in Gizmodo:
text: The monitor overseeing the Trump Organization’s finances wrote in its latest report that Donald Trump’s company intends to create 25 new entities for products or hotel licensing deals.
ref: 2024 October 23, Kara Scannell, “Trump Organization intends to create 25 entities for future product or hotel licensing deals, monitor says”, in CNN:
glosses: That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit, often used for organizations which have no physical form.
glosses: The existence of something considered apart from its properties.
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: 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.
examples: text: The group successfully maintains its tribal entity.
glosses: The state or quality of being or existence.
examples: text: [B]ut only too often séances degenerate into pure sorcery or necromancy, attracting all kinds of undeveloped and earth-bound entities.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 231:
glosses: A spirit, ghost, or the like.
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: An alien lifeform that has no corporeal body.
Synonyms: word: entity
Hypernyms: word: phenomenon
Hyponyms: word: animal
word: artifact
word: being
word: creature
word: critter
word: person
word: organism
word: object
word: plant
word: thing
word: thingy
word: number
word: shape
Derived terms: bioentity
entitative
entitic
entitize
entity alignment
entitylike
Entity List
entity relationship diagram
entity-relationship diagram
entity-relationship model
entity tag
first-class entity
geopolitical entity
legal entity
micronational entity
molecular entity
nonentity
political entity
presentity
second-class entity
special-purpose entity
subentity
superentity
third-class entity
Zionist entity
Related terms: word: duality
word: relationship
word: trinity
word: existence
word: Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 1. Existence