Identification vs Entity - What's the difference?
identification | entity |
The act of identifying, or proving to be the same.
The state of being identified.
A particular instance of identifying something.
A document or documents serving as evidence of a person's identity.
A feeling of support, sympathy, understanding or belonging towards somebody or something.
* {{quote-book
, year=1998
, author=Hugh Berrington
, title=Britain in the nineties
, chapter=
That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit. Often used for organisations which have no physical form.
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An existent something that has the properties of being real, and having a real existence.
(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.
The state or quality of being or existence.
* Quotation: The policy of the government of the United States is to seek . . . to preserve Chinese territorial and administrative entity --
As nouns the difference between identification and entity
is that identification is the act of identifying, or proving to be the same while entity is that which has a distinct existence as an individual unit often used for organisations which have no physical form.identification
English
(wikipedia identification)Noun
- Much education and experience is required for proper identification of bird species
- information necessary to make a good identification
- The authorities asked for his identification
citation, isbn= , page=192 , passage=In the English South and Midlands, identification' with Britain ran well ahead of '''identification''' with the region; in Yorkshire and the northern England, '''identification''' with the region ran about equal to '''identification''' with Britain; and in Scotland and Wales (but more especially in Scotland) '''identification''' with the region ('Scotland' or 'Wales') ran well ahead of ' identification with Britain.}}
Derived terms
* ID * idententity
English
(wikipedia entity)Noun
(entities)- 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 group successfully maintains its tribal entity.
