Collocations withentity
These are words often used in combination withentity.
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abstract entity
The soul (the form of the body) is an eternally existing abstract entity.
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administrative entity
As an administrative entity, it is small, neat and operates exceedingly efficiently.
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autonomous entity
An agent is also an autonomous entity, which plays some roles and pursues goals.
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biological entity
It is suggested that the device is so sophisticated that it could make complicated decisions and constantly evolve like a real biological entity.
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chemical entity
For example, new chemical entity drugs and new implantable biomaterials require a much longer time for approval than do generic drugs or "next generation" devices.
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clinical entity
Rated among the ten most frequent and deadly infectious diseases, measles is the most important vaccine-preventable clinical entity.
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collective entity
Whichever is the case, the argument continues, welfare analysis relates to somebody like you and me, not to a nebulous collective entity.
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combined entity
This would increase the nameplate capacity of the combined entity to 10.3 mtpa.
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commercial entity
A commercial entity may be well aware of the business purpose behind a use of personal data but characterize it as intended to benefit patient care.
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complex entity
In sum, then, the national economy is a complex entity and voter evaluations of it can be equally complex.
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corporate entity
In this sense, the ie was a corporate entity.
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covered entity
Growth in the number of covered entity sites also stems from a recent federal policy change.
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cultural entity
It is the idea of a cultural entity rather than an economic area.
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discrete entity
Within this unity, the individual, even though a discrete entity, is nevertheless bound or connected to others.
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disease entity
In physical health problems there may be a desire to identify a disease entity that can be diagnosed and separated from the sense of self.
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distinct entity
A clinical disorder is a distinct entity, construed as a disease; it is either present or absent, depending upon whether specific diagnostic criteria are met.
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economic entity
It also directs our attention to the power of the marketplace (understood here as much a social as an economic entity) to determine the value of money.
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fixed entity
From a conceptual point of view, however, it is not particularly useful to see denial as a fixed entity belonging to the individual.
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foreign entity
He reasoned that since the ship was being taken over by a foreign entity, it required more dramatic lighting and framing.
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government entity
That means that the new municipal borough is a very important local government entity.
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governmental entity
Refers to specific local governmental entity (board or individual) and/or grants, defines, or limits the right/power of a local government to do something; does not include courts.
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independent entity
The spot could be an independent entity superimposed on the naturally occurring mixing-layer structures or connected to the naturally occurring structures through braids.
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isolated entity
None of the elements appears as an isolated entity: they are always confronted with other, often vastly contrasting elements.
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linguistic entity
Of particular interest is the fact that the linguistic behaviour of loanwords is influenced by the citation form, as a distinct linguistic entity.
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living entity
And the derived verb ch'oolanink - literally 'to heart someone' - refers to caring for, maintaining, or feeding another living entity.
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local entity
This would be particularly important for people in countries where there is no local entity, including the government, capable of issuing fixedincome securities that are free of all risk.
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named entity
A named-entity detector receiving this common analysis structure may consider the deep parse to identify named entities.
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other entity
The other entity needed to answer to the specifications is the farmer.
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political entity
As a title used exclusively by rulers, the glyphs render the particular "emblem" believed to be the reference name of a political entity.
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powerful entity
In 1957, as a powerful entity with a tremendous cash flow, commercial television could offer the public what they wanted.
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private entity
One might object that once the state hands over the power to inflict a sanction to an individual or a private entity, the sanction thereby becomes a state-inflicted sanction.
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public entity
Although it is common today to think of business corporations as quintessentially private enterprises, the business corporation first emerged in the nineteenth century as a distinctly public entity.
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regulated entity
He has to balance one against the other and to consider the return on assets that is achieved by the regulated entity.
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sector entity
The investing party could be a national government or a private sector entity.
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separate entity
It regards the foetus as a separate entity, but a legal 'thing', not a legal person; as an object of property relations.
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single entity
The media are not a single entity, but having said that, newspapers and commercial television stations are businesses, motivated by economic concerns.
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small entity
The question as to how these sounds can be defined and sanctioned, when representing only a small entity in a greater aural environment, requires exploration.
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sovereign entity
We have inherited, as a sovereign entity, certain overseas responsibilities which have grown and which are likely to continue growing in relation to our power to discharge them.
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stable entity
A person is not a fixed, stable entity, but a fluctuating tide of responses.
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static entity
No longer viewed as a static entity, the process character of the organism was recognized as its dominant defining element.
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supernatural entity
The basic view is that while belief in supernatural entities is a cognitive byproduct, cultural traditions have recruited such beliefs to motivate prosocial behaviour.
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unknown entity
Let us not create a new name for a bank which would be an unknown entity on the world stage.
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various entities
Humans need to understand what various entities do, and they need to understand the relationships between such entities.
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viable entity
If it does it will still be 10 to 15 years from now before a fully viable entity will be available.
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