entity
That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit, often used for organizations which have no physical form.
Other meanings
The existence of something considered apart from its properties.
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.
Related words
- entitative
- entitic
- entitize
- Entity
- entity alignment
- Entity Bean
- entity identifier
- entitylike
- Entity List
- entity-relationship diagram
- entity-relationship model
- entity tag
Word history
From Medieval Latin "entitās".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “entity” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.