entity

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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. The existence of something considered apart from its properties.
  3. 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.
  4. The state or quality of being or existence.
    — The group successfully maintains its tribal entity.
  5. 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.
  6. An alien lifeform that has no corporeal body.

词形变化

entities plural

词源

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