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noun

entity

that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving)

In a sentence

Six example sentences with entity, each labelled with its topic.

  • Descartes asks whether the mind is a separate entity or merely something the body does, and the argument has never closed.

    Philosophy

  • A registered company is treated as an entity in its own right, able to own buildings and be sued without its founders.

    Law

  • The database gives every customer, order and shipment its own entity, each with an identifier no other row can reuse.

    Technology

  • The bank moved the loans into a separate entity so that its own balance sheet looked cleaner to investors.

    Finance

  • Every torch, door and goblin in the engine is an entity, a bundle of position and behavior the game updates each frame.

    Gaming

  • Economists treat the household as a single entity, although its members rarely agree about what to spend on.

    Economics

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