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/aɪdˈɛntəti/ /aɪdˈɛntɪti/ /aɪdˈɛnɪti/ /aɪdˈɛnəti/ Listen

noun

Identity n. (pl. identities)

The state or quality of being identical, or the same; sameness. "Identity is a relation between our cognitions of a thing, not between things themselves."

The condition of being the same with something described or asserted, or of possessing a character claimed; as, to establish the identity of stolen goods.

(Math.) An identical equation.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Identity" Quotes from Famous Books

... wandering? I must perforce wait till we arrive at our destination before thinking of escaping. It will be time enough to bother about that when the occasion presents itself. Until then the essential is that they remain ignorant as to my identity, and they cannot, and shall not, know who ...

— Facing the Flag • Jules Verne

... of Glengarry by Fort Augustus.' It has been absurdly alleged that Pickle was James Mohr Macgregor. In 1760, James Mohr had long been dead, and at no time was he addressed as Alexander Macdonnell of Glengarry. Additional evidence of Pickle's identity will occur in his communications with his English employers. He was not likely to adopt the name of Pickle before the publication of Smollett's 'Peregrine Pickle' in 1751, though he may have earlier played his infamous part as ...

— Pickle the Spy • Andrew Lang

... and Mistress Witherington have left no trace of their identity that I can find, but Mistress Philadelphia Carey is not wholly unknown. She was the second daughter of Thomas Carey, one of the Earl of Monmouth's sons, and readers may be pleased to know that she did ...

— The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54 • Edward Abbott Parry

... the only case of pronounced oogamy among Phaeosporeae. They are filamentous forms, exhibiting, however, a tendency to division in more than one plane, even in the vegetative parts. The discovery by Brebner of the specific identity of Haplospora globosa and Scaphospora speciosa marks an important step in the advance of our knowledge of the group. Three kinds of reproductive organs are known: first, sporangia, which each give ...

— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... constriction would suffice to provide for the distribution of all hereditary units to each of the products of division, but eventually in both organic kingdoms nuclear division, which alone insured the qualitative identity of the products of division, became a more marked feature in ...

— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others

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