entities

Noun

entity (plural entities)

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.1951 April, D. S. Barrie, “British Railways: A Survey, 1948-1950”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 223
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.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 231
6. An alien lifeform that has no corporeal body.

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