Entity Definition

ĕntĭ-tē
entities
noun
Something that exists as a particular and discrete unit.
Persons and corporations are equivalent entities under the law.
American Heritage
Being; existence.
Webster's New World
A thing that has definite, individual existence outside or within the mind; anything real in itself.
Webster's New World

(computing) Anything about which information or data can be stored in a database; in particular, an organised array or set of individual elements or parts.

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Other Word Forms of Entity

Noun

Singular:
entity
Plural:
entities

Origin of Entity

  • Medieval Latin entitās from Latin ēns ent- present participle of esse to be es- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Medieval Latin entitas, from Latin, present participle of esse, "to be".

    From Wiktionary

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