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identity 身元
 
English - Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (4)

1. the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity;
- Example: "you can lose your identity when you join the army"
[syn: identity, personal identity, individuality]

2. the individual characteristics by which a thing or person is recognized or known;
- Example: "geneticists only recently discovered the identity of the gene that causes it"
- Example: "it was too dark to determine his identity"
- Example: "she guessed the identity of his lover"

3. an operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates;
- Example: "the identity under numerical multiplication is 1"
[syn: identity, identity element, identity operator]

4. exact sameness;
- Example: "they shared an identity of interests"
[syn: identity, identicalness, indistinguishability]