entity

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At the beginning of the individual's development, the entity is a single cell.

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  1. noun Something that exists as a particular and discrete unit: Persons and corporations are equivalent entities under the law.
  2. noun The fact of existence; being.
  3. noun The existence of something considered apart from its properties.

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  • “I asked you if this entity is alive Not in the sense that it eats, pees, and—” I stopped myself. —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#216
  • But this entity is also practical, calculating, and expedient in the utility and channeling of his anger. —  Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy
  • Alternately, Coleman said the entity could be a not-for-profit organization created for such a purpose. —  Tyee - Home
  • "The museum is closed but the entity is alive," Duffy said. —  Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines
  • "What characterizes his workâ€" whether it's a corporate identity, museum exhibition, magazine or book†"is a compelling storyline that communicates what the entity is all about in a manner that is evocative and memorable," says Library Gallery Director Phillip Hitchcock. —  New at Pentagram
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  1. Medieval Latin entitās, from Latin ēns, ent-, present participle of esse, to be; see es- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French entité = Spanish entidad = Portuguese entidade = Italian entità, from Middle Latin entita(t-)s, from en(t-)s, a thing: see ens.
 

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