Entity
Translation- Entity
An entity is something that has a distinct, separate
existence , though it need not be a material existence. In particular,abstraction s andlegal fiction s are usually regarded as entities. In general, there is also no presumption that an entity is animate. Entities are used in system developmental models that display communications and internal processing of, say, documents compared to order processing.An entity could be viewed as a set containing
subset s. Inphilosophy , such sets are said to beabstract object s.Sometimes, the word "entity" is used in a general sense of a
being , whether or not the referent has material existence; e.g., is often referred to as an entity with nocorporeal form, such as a language. It is also often used to refer toghosts and otherspirits . Taken further, "entity" sometimes refers to existence or being itself. For example, the former U.S. diplomatGeorge F. Kennan once said that "the policy of the government of the United States is to seek . . . to preserve Chinese territorial and administrative "entity"."The word "entitative" is the adjective form of the noun entity. Something that is entitative is "considered as pure entity; abstracted from all circumstances", that is, regarded as entity alone, apart from attendant circumstances.
In
law , an entity is something capable of bearing legalright s andobligation s. It generally means "legal entity" (such as a business entity or a corporate entity) or "artificial person " but also includes "natural person ".pecialized uses
* A DBMS entity is "either" a thing in the modelled world "or" a drawing element in an ERD.
* A SUMO, Entity is the root node and stands for the universal class of individuals.
* InVHDL , entity is the keyword for defining a new object.
* An SGML entity is an abbreviation for some expanded piece of SGML text.
* Anopen systems architecture entity is an active routine within a layer.
* Incomputer game s andgame engine s, entity is adynamic object such as anon-player character oritem .
* InHTML , entity is a code snippet (ie: "®" for "Registered Trademark") which is interpreted by web browsers to display special characters. SeeList of XML and HTML character entity references .ee also
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Boltzmann brain , a hypothesized self-aware entity.
*Digital identity
*Entity realism , a form ofscientific realism .
*Ontology , the study of being, existence and entities
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