| English | Japanese |
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| identity | 身元 |
| English - Wordnet 3.0 | |
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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] |