The English Wiktionary has a dictionary definition (meanings of a word) for: identity

Identity could mean:

Philosophy |

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  Identity (philosophy) is the sameness of two things.


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  Identity theory of mind, in the philosophy of mind, holds that the mind is identical to the brain


• Personal identity

Mathematics |

• An identity is an equality that holds regardless of the values of its variables.


• An identity object is an entity that does not change other objects; identity function, identity element and identity matrix
  

Social science and psychology |

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  Identity (social science). In the social sciences, identity has specific meanings, stemming from cognitive theory, sociology, politics, and psychology.


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  Cultural identity is a person's self-affiliation (or categorization by others) as a member of a cultural group.


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  Gender identity is the gender with which a person identifies (or is identified by others).


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  Digital identity is the representation of identity in terms of digital information.


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  Online identity is the digital identity established by computer network users.


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  Psychological identity is the concept that an individual has a unique identity developed relatively late in history.

Business |

• An accounting identity is a basic accounting formulation that must, by construction, hold; for example, the balance sheet of a company must balance. The term may also be used to apply to formulations in economics that have the same characteristics, for example, the balance of payments must balance.


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  Corporate identity is the physical manifestation of a business brand.


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  Identity theft is the deliberate appropriation of someone else's identity (without that person's permission) for criminal purposes.

Computer science |

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  Identity (object-oriented programming), a property of objects that allows those objects to be distinguished from each other.


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  Identity column in SQL Server represents a database field whose values are automatically generated by the server, and uniquely identify a row in the table.

Religion |

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  Christian Identity, a controversial religious belief which holds that Europeans and their descendents are the Biblical Israel

Television, film, music and literature |

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  Identity (novel), a novel written by Milan Kundera
  


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  Identity (movie), a movie directed by James Mangold, starring, among others, John Cusack
  


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  Identity (album), an album from Zee with Richard Wright and Dave Harris
  


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  Identity (music), a transformation of pitches in music
  


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  Identity (game show), a game show on NBC hosted by Penn Jillette
  

Related pages |

• Secret identity


• identity card


• Identification

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