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Entity vs Abstraction - What's the difference?

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In computing|lang=en terms the difference between entity and abstraction

is that entity is (computing) anything about which information or data can be stored in a database; in particular, an organised array or set of individual elements or parts while abstraction is (computing) any intellectual construct produced through the technique of abstraction.

As nouns the difference between entity and abstraction

is that entity is that which has a distinct existence as an individual unit often used for organisations which have no physical form while abstraction is the act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken away .

entity

English

(wikipedia entity)

Noun

(entities)
  • That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit. Often used for organisations which have no physical form.
  • *
    • It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities .
  • An existent something that has the properties of being real, and having a real existence.
  • (computing) Anything about which information or data can be stored in a database; in particular, an organised array or set of individual elements or parts.
  • The state or quality of being or existence.
    • The group successfully maintains its tribal entity.
  • * Quotation: The policy of the government of the United States is to seek . . . to preserve Chinese territorial and administrative entity --

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * entitative * entity-relationship model * geopolitical entity * legal entity * nonentity

    Related terms

    * duality * trinity * relationship

    abstraction

    English

    Noun

  • The act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken away.
  • * 1848 , , Principles of Political Economy with some of their Applications to Social Philosophy :
    • The cancelling of the debt would be no destruction of wealth, but a transfer of it: a wrongful abstraction of wealth from certain members of the community, for the profit of the government, or of the tax-payers.
  • # (euphemistic) The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining.
  • # (engineering) Removal of water from a river, lake, or aquifer.
  • A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life, as a hermit's abstraction ; the withdrawal from one's senses.
  • The act of focusing on one characteristic of an object rather than the object as a whole group of characteristics; the act of separating said qualities from the object or ideas.
  • * W. Hamilton, in Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic (1860), Lecture XXXV, page 474:
    • Abstraction is no positive act: it is simply the negative of attention.
    Abstraction is necessary for the classification of things into genera and species.
  • The act of comparing commonality between distinct objects and organizing using those similarities; the act of generalizing characteristics; the product of said generalization.
  • An idea or notion of an abstract or theoretical nature.
    • to fight for mere abstractions .
  • Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects; preoccupation.
  • (art) An abstract creation, or piece of art; qualities of artwork that are free from representational aspects.
  • (chemistry) A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.
  • An idea of an unrealistic or visionary nature.
  • The result of mentally abstracting an idea; the results of said process.
  • (geology) The merging of two river valleys by the larger of the two deepening and widening so much so, as to assimilate the smaller.
  • (computing) Any generalization technique that ignores or hides details to capture some kind of commonality between different instances for the purpose of controlling the intellectual complexity of engineered systems, particularly software systems.
  • (computing) Any intellectual construct produced through the technique of abstraction.

    • Antonyms

    * (the act of generalization) specialization * (mentally abstracting) concretization

    Derived terms

    * abstractional * abstractionism * abstractionist * abstractive

    External links

    * * * * Glossary of Water Terms , American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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