identity

Words with a similar base: identity, identity_element, identity_operator, personal_identity

'identity'

[identity.n.01] as in: the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity

Examples:
you can lose your identity when you join the army

'identity'

[identity.n.02] as in: the individual characteristics by which a thing or person is recognized or known

Examples:
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

'identity'

[identity.n.03] as in: an operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates

Examples:
the identity under numerical multiplication is 1

'identity'

[identity.n.04] as in: exact sameness

Examples:
they shared an identity of interests

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