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n. a general term for any institution, company, corporation, part...
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A concrete or abstract thing represented by a noun, like employee, customer, or order. An entity manages data for an application.
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Relationships Related Term:  digital object n. ~ 1. A thing. - 2. Systems modeling · A member of a set that has defined characteristics. Notes:  An entity1 may be tangible or intangible, animate or in [..]
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Term used to represent the corporation, organization or business which is undergoing a PCI DSS review.
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A concrete or abstract thing including associations among these things e.g. a person, object, event, idea, process, etc.
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Something that exists as a particular and discrete unit. Persons and corporations are equivalent entities under the law.
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something that exists separately from other things and has its own identity The unit has become part of a larger department and no longer exists as a separate entity. These countries can no longer be [..]
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1590s, from Late Latin entitatem (nominative entitas), from ens (genitive entis) "a thing," proposed by Caesar as present participle of esse "be" (see is), to render Greek philosop [..]
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A hardware (or firmware) device or software process capable ofinitiating or responding to communication. Entities typicallypossess a unique address.
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An organization, institution, or being that has its own existence for legal or tax purposes. An entity is often an organization with an existence separate from its individual members--for example, a c [..]
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that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving) Entity is a netlabel specialising in experimental electronic music. The label was established in 2 [..]
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Any piece of hardware or software that wants to connect to the network services provided by Networking, the network connectivity service. An entity can make use of Networking by implementing a VIF.
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The OSI term for a layered-protocol machine.
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It’s a diagram that represents entities and how they are related to each other.
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An HTML entity is a string that begins with '&' and ends with ';'. Entities can be used to represent any character in HTML. However, HTML reserves the following four characters [..]
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Definition A thing that exists in its own right. The law recognizes corporations and people as entities with rights and legal obligations.
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As defined in FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records), one of the key objects of interest to users of information within a given domain of "things" described by bibliographi [..]
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yesh
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pl: -ties : an organization (as a business or governmental unit) that has a legal identity which is separate from those of its members see also alter ego, instrumentality, juridical person, legal ...
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A person or group of people that pays taxes. Types of tax entities include individuals, businesses, estates, trusts, and charitable organizations.
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[cartography] Entities represent real-world point, line or polygon features with a geographic location. Features may refer to fire hydrants, hospitals, state boundaries, roads, rivers, lakes, etc. Ent [..]
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The information transferred as the payload of a request or response. An entity consists of meta information in the form of entity header fields (such as the Accept
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  A name (corresponding with a four digit number) which identifies an administrative or academic element within the university's organizational structure.
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As stated in Australian Accounting Standard AASB 1029 an entity is any legal, administrative or fiduciary arrangement, organisational structure or other party (including a person) having the capacity to deploy scarce resources in order to achieve objectives.
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A special sequence of characters, representing another character. An entity starts with "&", ends with ";" and should contain the name or the number of the entity. If you use a [..]
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According to the Federal Bankruptcy Code 11 USCS § 101 [Title 11. Bankruptcy; Chapter 1. General provisions] the term the term entity includes “person, estate, trust, governmental unit, and United Sta [..]
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Entity refers to an organization like a business or governmental unit that has a legal identity apart from its members. Something that exists as a particular and discrete unit. For example, corporate [..]
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A particular unit of organization including corporations, partnerships, trusts, and foundations.
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(n) that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving)
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Company, corporation, individual or organisation, for example, hospital, health practice registered as a business.
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Term used to refer to any object in a 2D sketch or 3D drawing.
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Something that exists independently, such as a business which exists independently of the owner.
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n. entidad
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means, but is not limited to, any company, firm, society, association, partnership, corporation, or trust. O.C.G.A. § 20-3-250.2.(10)
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An entity is any singular, identifiable and separate object. It refers to individuals, organizations, systems, bits of data or even distinct system components that are considered significant in and of [..]
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"Entity" includes a corporation, foreign corporation, nonprofit corporation, profit and nonprofit unincorporated association, business trust, estate, partnership, trust, two or more persons [..]
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An Entity is the one of the building blocks of your application in the PlayCanvas Engine
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n. a general term for any institution, company, corporation, partnership, government agency, university or any other organization which is distinguished from individuals.
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denotes an element of interest in the system.
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In accounting a seperate economic unit that is subject to financial measurements i.e. corporation, partnerships and trusts.
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The basic unit upon which accounting and/or financial reporting activities are focused.
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Any natural person, partnership, municipal corporation, cooperative corporation, association, governmental subdivision, or public or private organization.
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any facility that can be defined at a certain location. This can be a node, delivery point, well, separator, and so on.
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An embassy, consulate, trade, press, airline, cultural, tourist, or business office, and any organization representing a foreign country (USAID Automated Directives System - ADS - Chapter 562).
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A thing that has an existence, often in myths the word is used as a way of referring to a spirit or unknown supernatural being.
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 In modeling terms, an Entity is a "set," a collection of like objects that have identical characteristics but are unique individuals.  For example, "apples".  Apples have identica [..]
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That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit. Often used for organisations which have no physical form. * Schuster Hepaticae V|ix *: It is also pertinent to note that the current obvi [..]
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===Noun=== ====any thing, animate or inanimate==== =====Synonyms===== entity thing being creature person organism animal plant artifact number shape group object Roget 1911 * Moby II
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An item in the business domain about which data will be collected and stored.
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takes delivery of goods or services and is allowed to make payment at a later date. credit sale
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sells goods or services and allows the customer to make payment at a later date. creditor
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Something that exists independently, such as a business which exists independently of the owner. entry price
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formed by parent
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