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[ʌɪˈdɛntɪti], (Noun)
Definitions:
- the fact of being who or what a person or thing is
(e.g: he knows the identity of the bombers)
- a close similarity or affinity
(e.g: an identity between the company's own interests and those of the local community)
- a transformation that leaves an object unchanged
- the equality of two expressions for all values of the quantities expressed by letters, or an equation expressing this, e.g. (x + 1)² = x ² + 2x + 1
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Origin
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mid 16th century (in the sense ‘quality of being identical’): via French from late Latin identitas, from Latin idem ‘same’
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