The English Wiktionary has a dictionary definition (meanings of a word) for: identity

Identity could mean:

Philosophy

• Identity (philosophy) is the sameness of two things.
• Identity theory of mind, in the philosophy of mind, holds that the mind is identical to the brain
• Personal identity

Mathematics

• An identity is an equality that holds regardless of the values of its variables.
• An identity object is an entity that does not change other objects; identity function, identity element and identity matrix

Social science and psychology

• Identity (social science). In the social sciences, identity has specific meanings, stemming from cognitive theory, sociology, politics, and psychology.
• Cultural identity is a person's self-affiliation (or categorization by others) as a member of a cultural group.
• Gender identity is the gender with which a person identifies (or is identified by others).
• Digital identity is the representation of identity in terms of digital information.
• Online identity is the digital identity established by computer network users.
• Psychological identity is the concept that an individual has a unique identity developed relatively late in history.

Business

• An accounting identity is a basic accounting formulation that must, by construction, hold; for example, the balance sheet of a company must balance. The term may also be used to apply to formulations in economics that have the same characteristics, for example, the balance of payments must balance.
• Corporate identity is the physical manifestation of a business brand.
• Identity theft is the deliberate appropriation of someone else's identity (without that person's permission) for criminal purposes.

Computer science

• Identity (object-oriented programming), a property of objects that allows those objects to be distinguished from each other.
• Identity column in SQL Server represents a database field whose values are automatically generated by the server, and uniquely identify a row in the table.

Religion

• Christian Identity, a controversial religious belief which holds that Europeans and their descendents are the Biblical Israel

Television, film, music and literature

• Identity (novel), a novel written by Milan Kundera
• Identity (movie), a movie directed by James Mangold, starring, among others, John Cusack
• Identity (album), an album from Zee with Richard Wright and Dave Harris
• Identity (music), a transformation of pitches in music
• Identity (game show), a game show on NBC hosted by Penn Jillette

Related pages

• Secret identity
• identity card
• Identification

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