entity

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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.

2. 2
   noun

   The state or quality of being or existence.

   The group successfully maintains its tribal entity.

3. 3
   noun

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving)

5. 5
   noun

   The existence of something considered apart from its properties.

6. 6
   noun

   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.

7. 7
   noun

   An alien lifeform that has no corporeal body.

Etymology

From the Medieval Latin entitās, from ēns (“being”) (stem: ent-) + -tās (compare essentia), see there for more information.