Meaning of "identity" : Online English Dictionary : Word Search by Wordhut.com

Meaning of identity

1. (n) the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity; "you can lose your identity when you join the army"

2. (n) exact sameness; "they shared an identity of interests"

3. (n) the individual characteristics by which a thing or person is recognized or known; "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"

4. (n) an operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates; "the identity under numerical multiplication is 1"

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