identity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: algebra
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English ydemptite, from Middle French identité and its etymon Late Latin idemptitās, identitās, from idem (“the same”) + -tās (suffix forming abstract nouns) as a calque of Ancient Greek ταὐτότης (tautótēs, “sameness”).
Inflected forms:
form: identities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Sameness, identicalness; the quality or fact of (several specified things) being the same.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: But whenas a leſſer number of Agreements in each Paralleliſm (provided there were nothing contrary) could not but have been a ſtrong preſumption of the Identity of the Subjects of the Viſions in each Chapter, I mean, That the Two-horned Beaſt and the Whore are one, and the Seven-headed Beaſt in each Chapter the ſame; how fully aſſured muſt we needs be of theſe Identities, the Agreements of theſe two Paralleliſms (thoſe paſſages onely excepted of which I have given ſo fair an account) perfectly exhauſting the whole ſubſtance of each Chapter?
[…] suggesting the two are different stages of the same species. The identity of the two species is further suggested by allozyme analysis […]
gloss: The difference or character that marks off an individual or collective from the rest of the same kind; selfhood; the sense of who something or someone or oneself is, or the recurring characteristics that enable the recognition of such an individual or group by others or themselves.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I've been through so many changes, I have no sense of identity.
This nation has a strong identity.
His own identity was fading out into a grey impalpable world: the solid world itself which these dead had one time reared and lived in was dissolving and dwindling.
On the other hand, ME /ɛu/ preserved its identity into the early Modern English period, and the early writers on orthography and pronunciation normally distinguish between lME /iu/ and lME /ɛu/, the latter of which occurs in words with eME /ɛː/ like dew (OE dēaw), few (OE fēawe), hew (OE hēawan), sew (eME ē < ĕ, OE seowian), shrew (OE scrēawa), etc.
gloss: A name or persona—a mask or appearance one presents to the world—by which one is known.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This criminal has taken on several identities.
In this show, the competitor's identity will remain secret until after the vote.
gloss: An equation which always holds true regardless of the choice of input variables.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The equation (x+y)(x−y) = x²−y² is an algebraic identity. It is true regardless of the values of x and y.
gloss: Any function which maps all elements of its domain to themselves.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An element of an algebraic structure which, when applied to another element under an operation in that structure, yields this second element.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Zero is the identity for the addition of real numbers.
gloss: A well-known or famous person.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
countable
uncountable
examples: The body of a well known old identity named James Conroy […] was found in the water yesterday afternoon…
Related words: identic
identical
identification
identify
Derived words: Abel-Jacobi-Liouville identity
Abel's identity
age identity
amputee identity disorder
Bézout's identity
bioidentity
body integrity identity disorder
Capelli's identity
coidentity
cultural identity
cyberidentity
de Moivre's identity
dissociative identity disorder
e-identity
Euler's identity
gender identity disorder
gender identity syndrome
identicard
identicide
identicon
identitarian
identity broker
identity card
identity crisis
identity death
identity document
identity functor
identityless
identity matrix
identity morphism
identity of indiscernibles
identity parade
identity police
identity policing
identity politician
identity politics
identity property
identity provider
identity restoration
identity theft
Jacobi identity
law of identity
misidentity
nonidentity
Pythagorean trigonometric identity
self-identity
standard of identity
steal someone's identity
subidentity
transidentity
trig identity
trigonometric identity
Weinstein-Aronszajn identity
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