identity
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /aɪˈdɛntəti/
identity
- Sameness, identicalness; the quality or fact of (several specified things) being the same.
- 1997, Hydrothermal Vent Fauna, in Advances in Marine Biology: The Biogeography of the Oceans, page 111:
- […] suggesting the two are different stages of the same species. The identity of the two species is further suggested by allozyme analysis […]
- 1997, Hydrothermal Vent Fauna, in Advances in Marine Biology: The Biogeography of the Oceans, page 111:
- The difference or character that marks off an individual from the rest of the same kind, selfhood.
- A name or persona—the mask or appearance one presents to the world—by which one is known.
- This criminal has taken on several identities.
- Sense of who one is.
- I've been through so many changes, I have no sense of identity.
- This nation has a strong identity.
- (mathematics) An equation which always holds true regardless of the choice of input variables.
- (algebra, computing) Any function which maps all elements of its domain to themselves.
- (algebra) An element of an algebraic structure which, when applied to another element under an operation in that structure, yields this second element.
- (Australia, NZ) A well-known or famous person.
- 1887 July 19, "Drowned at Williamstown", The Age ↗ (Melbourne)
- The body of a well known old identity named James Conroy […] was found in the water yesterday afternoon…
- 2013 April 4, "Cricket identities consult lawyers", [https://web.archive.org/web/20130410135936/http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10875363 New Zealand Herald]
- 2016 January 13, "Kings Cross identities arrested in connection with murder", The Sydney Morning Herald ↗
- 1887 July 19, "Drowned at Williamstown", The Age ↗ (Melbourne)
- (sameness) See also Thesaurus:sameness
- (difference that marks off an individual) individuality, selfhood; see also Thesaurus:selfhood
- (mathematical function) identity function
- (famous person) celebrity, personality
- French: identité
- German: Identität, Gleichheit
- Italian: identità
- Portuguese: identidade
- Russian: тожде́ственность
- Spanish: identidad
- French: identité
- German: Identität
- Portuguese: identidade
- Russian: иденти́чность
- Spanish: identidad
- French: identité
- German: Identität
- Portuguese: identidade
- Russian: ли́чность
- Spanish: identidad
- French: identité
- German: Identität
- Portuguese: identidade
- Russian: индивидуа́льность
- Spanish: identidad
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