isolated entity

collocation in English

meaningsofisolatedandentity

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isolated
adjective
uk
/ˈaɪ.sə.leɪ.tɪd/
us
/ˈaɪ.sə.leɪ.t̬ɪd/
not near to ...
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entity
noun[C]
uk
/ˈen.tɪ.ti/
us
/ˈen.t̬ə.t̬i/
something that exists apart from other things, having its own ...
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(Definition ofisolatedandentityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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None of the elements appears as anisolatedentity: they are always confronted with other, often vastly contrasting elements.
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The suburb is not anisolatedentity, but intimately linked with the city from which it derived its raison d'^tre.
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Whereas earlier incentives treated each landowner as anisolatedentity, the smart subsidy creates incentives for landowners to 'cooperate' by retiring land along their adjoining fence lines.
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He distinguishes that, while "pneuma" focuses on man as a relational entity, "anatt" focuses on man as anisolatedentity.
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Anodontia is usually part of a syndrome and seldom occurs as anisolatedentity.
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Most graphical virtual worlds to date have been designed as isolated entities, to be experienced by one or a few physically collocated individuals.
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In general, an engineering approach is concerned with purposeful activity, whereas a scientific one concentrates on proper ties of isolated entities.
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In the world of particle physics, event generators are not isolated entities.
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These villages have never been stable, isolated entities and have from the beginning been formed in relation to the market and state policies.
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The division between ground-state effects and transition-state effects relies upon an approximate transition-state theory in which the two species are regarded as isolated entities in equilibrium.
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Increasingly, telecentres are not operating as independent, isolated entities but as members of a network.
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These natural features would typically be isolated entities and of scientific interest.
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Such features would typically be isolated entities of scientific interest.
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Tepuis tend to be found as isolated entities rather than in connected ranges, which makes them the host of a unique array of endemic plant and animal species.
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