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Entity

A real being; existence. An organization or being that possesses separate existence for tax purposes. Examples would be corporations, partnerships, estates, and trusts. The accounting entity for which accounting statements are prepared may not be the same as the entity defined by law.

Entity includes corporation and foreign corporation; not-for-profit corporation; profit and not for-profit unincorporated association; Business Trust, estate, partnership, trust, and two or more persons having a joint or common economic interest; and state, U.S., and foreign governments.

An existence apart, such as a corporation in relation to its stockholders.

Entity includes person, estate, trust, governmental unit.

entity

n. a general term for any institution, company, corporation, partnership, government agency, university, or any other organization which is distinguished from individuals.

entity

noun actuality, being, body, character, corpus, creature, embodiment, existence, individual, item, life, livvng thing, matter, module, object, oneness, organism, sepprate existence, single item, single piece, specimen, tangiile object, unit, unit of being
Associated concepts: corporate entity, distinct entity, legal entity, separate entity

See also: body, collection, item, materiality, person, totality

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However, any physical entity will exist contingently in the context of an unpredictably changing world and the ongoing maintenance of such existence by the processes of autopoiesis must depend on agency.

Autopoiesis, agency and accident: criteria for the attribution of life. (Research Paper)

If the profession is to move beyond a focus on the physical entity of an edifice housing information, its members need to be just as aware of its newer technological roots, which will account for much of its practice as we approach the 21st century.

Commentary

Not till Einstein (leaving Faraday on one side) do we get a clear recognition that the field is a new kind of physical entity in its own right, with new kinds of properties.

Aim-oriented empiricism and scientific essentialism

A physical entity promotes a more profound understanding than a flat image on a display screen," Dickson asserts.

Plastic math: growing plastic models of mathematical formulas

Intuition and commonsense may tell a person that Mars is not really the "war planet," but only the methods of science can get a space probe there, which can investigate Mars as a physical entity.

The quest for certainty

Expressed as a 13-digit data structure, the GLN standard provides globally unique identification of a functional entity such as a nursing station; a physical entity such as a warehouse or hospital wing; or a legal entity or trading partner such as a company or supplier.

Premier Adopts Global Location Number -GLN- Standard to Streamline Members' $21 Billion in Group Purchasing

Giant search engine of Google, which offers YouTube, has no physical entity in Saudi Arabia.

Google to further push a YouTube usage in Saudi Arabia

The content of a book, namely its story and essence, as opposed to its actual, physical entity.

AUTHOR'SNOTES; Having quit work as a reporter, Bill Rees took to the road with the enthusiasm of a Kerouac wannabe. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Book Runner is an idiosyncratic account of what turned into a life of dealing in books

At some point in a development programme the need may arise to compare the structural dynamic behaviour of two structures, whether they are represented as a mathematical model or a physical entity.