ENTITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does entity mean? 

• ENTITY (noun)
  The noun ENTITY has 1 sense:

1. that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving)

  Familiarity information: ENTITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENTITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

That which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving)

Classified under:

Nouns with no superordinates

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "entity"):

physical entity (an entity that has physical existence)

abstract entity; abstraction (a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples)

thing (an entity that is not named specifically)

 Context examples 

A unit of measurement equal to 10 to one million international units of an entity per unit of volume equal to one milliliter.

(Million International Units per Milliliter, NCI Thesaurus)

This entity is frequently examined to determine how changes to the surrounding environment affects biological processes and the resulting health status of the organism.

(Microbiome, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of measurement equal to one million entities per unit of mass equal to one gram.

(Million per Gram, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of measurement equal to 10 to the sixth power of the number of entities per unit of mass equal to one gram.

(Million per Gram, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A unit of measurement equal to one million entities per unit of area equal to one high powered field.

(Million per High Powered Field, NCI Thesaurus)

The type of a material sample taken from a biological entity for microbiological testing.

(Microbiology Specimen Type, NCI Thesaurus)

A biological or chemical substance that exerts toxic or pathologic effects on living entities.

(Biohazardous Substance, NCI Thesaurus)

Two distinct clinicopathological entities are recognized: neurofibromatosis type 1 and neurofibromatosis type 2.

(Neurofibromatosis, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of measurement equal to 10 to the ninth power of the number of entities per unit of volume equal to one liter.

(Billion per Liter, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

An entity that is responsible for the initiation, management, and/or financing of a nonclinical study.

(Nonclinical Study Sponsor, NCI Thesaurus)