According to Avison and Shah (1997), an entity type is a collection of entity instances sharing similar properties; and 'relationships' associate or relate instances from one entity type with some of the instances of another entity type.
Reference: David Avison & Hanifa Shah, 1997, Information Systems Series - The Information Systems Development Life Cycle: A First Course in Information Systems, London; McGraw-Hill
same as entity class or entity type or entity set
the difference between a reporting entity and a taxable entity is, a reporting entity is the company or organization and the taxable entity is the individual.
Entity - Table Entity Set - Rows in Table
The possessive form of the noun entity is entity's.
The possessive form for the noun entity is entity's.
Business Entity Concept
what is software entity
cultural entity
an entity with reports
In contrast to the strong or regular entity, a weak entity is one that meets two conditions: 1. The entity is existence-dependent; that is, it cannot exist without the entity with which it has a relationship. 2. The entity has a primary key that is partially or totally derived from the parent entity in the relationship.
An entity occurrence is essentially an instance of an entity. A great example of an entity occurrence is someone's birthdate and other personal records.
A weak entity set can always be make into strong entity set by adding to its attribute of its identifying entity set. For a weak entity set, we add columns to the table corresponding to the primary key of the strong entity set on which the weak set is dependent.