identity

IPA: aɪdˈɛntʌti

Sameness, identicalness; the quality or fact of (several specified things) being the same.
The difference or character that marks off an individual or collective from the rest of the same kind; selfhood; the sense of who something or someone or oneself is, or the recurring characteristics that enable the recognition of such an individual or group by others or themselves.
A name or persona—a mask or appearance one presents to the world—by which one is known.
(mathematics) An equation which always holds true regardless of the choice of input variables.
(algebra, computing) Any function which maps all elements of its domain to themselves.
(algebra) An element of an algebraic structure which, when applied to another element under an operation in that structure, yields this second element.
(Australia, New Zealand) A well-known or famous person.

Examples of "identity" in Sentences

But often the shift in identity is purely for pleasure.
"A lot of people use the term identity management loosely," says John Lyons,
1998, "Criteria of identity and the ˜identity mystic™", Erkenntnis, 48: 281-301.
E.G. create table table1 (id int identity (1,1) not null, name nvarchar (64)) go insert into table1 ( 'Hello world') go select @@identity
In this sense, then, a thing's essence may be said to constitute its identity, when one uses the word ˜identity™ in this distinctive manner to speak of
The lack of stylistic focus might hurt the label identity in a way, but my tastes are all over the map, and I think the label should reflect that to an extent.
CAFFERTY: The term identity crisis has taken on a whole new meaning in this high tech age and that's because identity theft is a huge problem with very big consequences.
The notion of transworld identity ” ˜identity across possible worlds™ ” is the notion that the same object exists in more than one possible world (with the actual world treated as one of the possible worlds).