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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.
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The existence of something considered apart from its properties.
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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.
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The state or quality of being or existence.
- The group successfully maintains its tribal entity.
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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.
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An alien lifeform that has no corporeal body.
syn. entity
ant. nonentity · variety