Identity

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Identity most often refers to:

• Identity document, a document proving a person's identity
• Identity (philosophy), the relation each thing bears only to itself
• Identity (social science), that which characterizes a person or a group
• Identity (mathematics), an equation that is always true for any value of its variables

Identity may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Business

• Accounting identity, calculation that must be true regardless of its variables
• Brand identity, the expression of a brand
• Corporate identity, the manner a corporation presents itself to the public

Philosophy and social science

• Identity (philosophy), the relation each thing bears only to itself
• Law of identity, that each thing is identical with itself
• Personal identity, the numerical identity of a person over time
• Identity (social science), qualities etc that characterize a person or group
• Political identity

Mathematics

• Identity (mathematics), an equality that holds regardless of the values of its variables
• Identity element, an element of the set which leaves unchanged every element when the operation is applied
• Identity function, a function that leaves its argument unchanged
• Identity matrix, with ones on the main diagonal, zeros elsewhere

Science and technology

• Digital identity, information used by computer systems to represent an external agent
• Identity (object-oriented programming), the property of objects that distinguishes them from other objects

Other uses

• Identity document, or ID

See also

Wikiquote has quotations related to Identity.

• All pages with titles beginning with Identity
• All pages with titles containing Identity

• Biometrics
• Collective identity
• Cultural diversity
• Cultural identity
• Entity (disambiguation)
• ID (disambiguation)
• Identification (disambiguation)
• Identifier, a name that identifies a unique object or class of objects
• Identity politics
• National identity
• Outline of self
• Personal data
• Personal identity (disambiguation)
• Secret identity (disambiguation)
• The Bourne Identity (disambiguation)

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