Entity (disambiguation)
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An entity is something that exists as itself.
Entity may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
[edit]Film and television
[edit]- Entity (2012 film), a British supernatural thriller
- Entity (2014 film), an English-language French sci-fi horror short
- "Entity" (Stargate SG-1), a 2001 American sci-fi television episode
Music
[edit]- Entities (album), a 2007 album by Malefice
- Entity (album), a 2011 album by Origin
- Entity (netlabel), a Belgian label specialising in experimental electronic music
Other uses in arts and entertainment
[edit]- "Entity" (short story), a 1949 science fiction story
- Entity FX, a visual effects company
- Life Entity, a fictional creature in DC comics
Specific uses of entity
[edit]In the humanities
[edit]- Legal entity, a body holding rights and obligations
- Non-physical entity, in philosophy
- Spirit (vital essence), in folklore and religion
- Political entity (or polity), in geopolitics and society
In computing
[edit]- Entity (computer science), a user-relevant virtual object with an identity independent of change to its attributes
- Entities (or the entity class) in the entity–relationship model, a conceptual model for data which can be used to design and create relational databases
- Enhanced entity–relationship model or extended entity–relationship model, a high-level or conceptual data model for design of databases incorporating extensions to the original entity–relationship model
- Entity-control-boundary, entity-boundary-control or boundary-control-entity, an architectural pattern used in use-case driven object-oriented software design that structures the classes composing a software according to their responsibilities in the use-case realization
- Entities (or the entity class) in the entity–relationship model, a conceptual model for data which can be used to design and create relational databases
- Character entity reference, an XML/HTML escape code for a single typographical character
- SGML entity, a primitive data type in Standard Generalized Markup Language
See also
[edit]- The Entity (disambiguation)
- All pages with titles containing Entity
- Entitativity, in social sciences
- Entity concept, the accounting principle
- Entity Framework, an open-source, .Net object mapping system
- Entity Registry, a Norwegian database of legal entities