Engelsk navneord: identity | |||
1. | identity (om egenskab) the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | You can lose your identity when you join the army. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | individuality, personal identity | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | personality | ||
Mere specifikke termer | gender identity, identification, personhood | ||
2. | identity (om erkendelse) the individual characteristics by which a thing or person is recognized or known | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | Geneticists only recently discovered the identity of the gene that causes it. It was too dark to determine his identity. She guessed the identity of his lover. | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | identification, recognition | ||
3. | identity an operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | The identity under numerical multiplication is 1. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | identity element, identity operator | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | operator | ||
4. | identity (om egenskab) exact sameness | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | They shared an identity of interests. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | identicalness, indistinguishability | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | sameness | ||
Mere specifikke termer | oneness, selfsameness, unity | ||