|
| i·den·ti·ty [ ī déntətee ] (plural i·den·ti·ties) |
noun |
|
| Definition: |
| |
1. what identifies somebody or something: the name or essential character that identifies somebody or something
|
2. essential self: the set of characteristics that somebody recognizes as belonging uniquely to himself or herself and constituting his or her individual personality for life
|
3. sameness: the fact or condition of being the same or exactly alike
|
4. mathematics equation true for all its variables: a mathematical equation that remains valid whatever values are taken by its variables
|
5. mathematics
Same as identity element
|
| [Late 16th century. < late Latin identitas< ident-, combining form of Latin idem "same" < id "that"] |
