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Entity vs Facilities - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between entity and facilities

is that entity is that which has a distinct existence as an individual unit. Often used for organisations which have no physical form while facilities is plural of lang=en.

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

    facilities

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • something that facilitates, or makes possible an action or process
  • something created to fulfil a particular function
  • a restroom or toilet