context: An entity is something that has a unique and different existence, although it does not have to be in physical form. Abstraction, for example, is usually considered also as an entity. In system development, an entity is used as a model that describes internal communication and processing such as differentiating documents from order processing.
question: What is the meaning of entity?
answers.text: something that has a unique and different existence, although it does not have to be in physical form