entity
Common Legal Terms
A legally recognized organization.
GIS
A collection of objects (persons, places, things) described by the same attributes. Entities are identified during the conceptual design phase of database and application design.
- — GIS Glossary retrieved 2014-05-27
Java
A distinct, individual item that can be included in an XML document by referencing it. Such an entity reference can name an entity as small as a character (for example,
<, which references the less-than symbol or left angle bracket, <). An entity reference can also reference an entire document, an external entity, or a collection of DTD definitions. Security
Either a subject (an active element that operates on information or the system state) or an object (a passive element that contains or receives information).
Telecommunications
The OSI term for a layered-protocol machine.