identity
英英释意
- 1. the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity;
- "you can lose your identity when you join the army"
- 2. the individual characteristics by which a thing or person is recognized or known;
- "geneticists only recently discovered the identity of the gene that causes it"
- "it was too dark to determine his identity"
- "she guessed the identity of his lover"
- 3. an operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates;
- "the identity under numerical multiplication is 1"
- 4. exact sameness;
- "they shared an identity of interests"