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entity

nomattesté dans les dialogues

  • Royaume-Uni//ˈɛn.tɪt.i//
  • États-Unis//ˈɛn.tə.ti/ [-tʰi]/

That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit, often used for organizations which have no physical form.

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  1. 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.

    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.

    The monitor overseeing the Trump Organization’s finances wrote in its latest report that Donald Trump’s company intends to create 25 new entities for products or hotel licensing deals.

  2. 2

    The existence of something considered apart from its properties.

  3. 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. 4

    The state or quality of being or existence.

    The group successfully maintains its tribal entity.

  5. 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. 6

    An alien lifeform that has no corporeal body.

Étymologie

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- Proto-Indo-European *-t Proto-Indo-European *bʰúHt Proto-Italic *ezom~*som Old Latin 𐌄𐌔𐌏𐌌 (esom) Old Latin esum Latin sumbf. Latin ēns Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Medieval Latin entitāsbor. English entity From the Medieval Latin entitās, from ēns (“being”) (stem: ent-) + -tās (compare essentia), see there for more information.

Formes

pluriel
entities
Les pages voisinesL'ordre alphabétique suit les règles de la langue, pas la valeur des octets : un accent ne départage que deux mots par ailleurs identiques, et l'espagnol range le Ñ comme une lettre à part entière.

Contenu lexical issu du Wiktionary, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrée d'origine · Version des données 2026-08-23

Rang parmi les mots du corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — des sous-titres de films et de séries, donc de la langue parlée et non écrite (CC BY-SA 3.0).