Other forms: entities
An entity is a thing with its own separate existence. A legal entity, a single entity, a separate entity.
In law it means a body that can own property and be sued in its own name, which is why a company is called a legal entity — the point is that it is separate from the people in it. In computing an entity is any distinct item a system stores.
1nounentityA thing with its own separate existence.
“After the merger, the two banks became a single entity with one name.”
entity is a thing.
Medieval Latin entitas comes from ens, a being, from esse, to be. Essence is a relative.
Medieval Latin
entitās
English, today
entity
Built from
Borrowed from Medieval Latin entitās. From the Medieval Latin entitās, from ēns (“being”) (stem: ent-) + -tās (compare essentia), see there for more information.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA