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US
/aɪˈdɛntɪˌti/
]
[ UK /aɪdˈɛntɪti/ ]
[ UK /aɪdˈɛntɪti/ ]
NOUN
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an operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates
the identity under numerical multiplication is 1 -
the individual characteristics by which a thing or person is recognized or known
it was too dark to determine his identity
geneticists only recently discovered the identity of the gene that causes it
she guessed the identity of his lover -
exact sameness
they shared an identity of interests -
the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity
you can lose your identity when you join the army
How To Use identity In A Sentence
- Speaking of pal Dorian, he's mentioned to me a couple times at work that somewhere on the John Byrne Forum, some industrious individual "rewrote" events in Identity Crisis so that You-Know-Who wasn't sexually assaulted and killed. Archive 2004-07-18
- But true-life tales of memory loss don't offer just drama - they also shed light on the mysteries of identity and personality.
- No one builds a jingle or a slogan or even a brand identity using web advertising.
- In analyzing the actual content of the perzine, one discovers a number of strategies deployed in the construction and performance of social identity.
- These institutions have made the assertion of ethnic identity possible.
- A defining characteristic of the 16-25 generation is their digital identity. Times, Sunday Times
- He uncovers more about his private life including the identity of his fiancé, a point of much speculation until now.
- The dead men could have been the victims of mistaken identity. Their attackers may have wrongly believed them to be soldiers.
- In the course of this article I have chosen to focus upon ideas of the self and identity.
- But any more fundamental change, which would constitute the ultimate formal recognition of their new identity, is to be denied.