entity
noun
- something that exists in the identified universe
- an organization (such as a business or governmental unit) that has an identity separate from those of its members
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈɛn.tɪ.ti/
noun
Etymology: From the Medieval Latin entitās, from ēns (“being”) (stem: ent-) + -tās (compare essentia), see there for more information.
- That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit, often used for organizations which have no physical form.
“The organisational and administrative tasks involved in welding the railways into a single entity have also received much publicity.”
“It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities.”
- 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.
- The state or quality of being or existence.
“The group successfully maintains its tribal entity.”
- A spirit, ghost, or the like.
“[B]ut only too often séances degenerate into pure sorcery or necromancy, attracting all kinds of undeveloped and earth-bound entities.”
- An alien lifeform that has no corporeal body.