entity
Definitions
General English
General Science
- noun something which is distinct and separate from something else
Accounting
Computing
- noun a subject to which the data stored in a file or database refers
Electronics
- Anything existing as a particular and discrete unit.
- In computers, a group of items or elements that can be treated as a unit. For instance, a data record.
- noun something which exists in its own right separate from other things
Law
- noun something which exists in law
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