entity

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

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains entity. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

• cease
• theoretical
• achievable
• evidenced
• academia
• margin
• reliability
• data
• phase
• implicit
• modification
• imply