single entity

collocation in English

meanings of singleand entity

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single
adjective
uk /ˈsɪŋ.ɡəl/ us /ˈsɪŋ.ɡəl/
one ...
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entity
noun[C]
uk /ˈen.tɪ.ti/ us /ˈen.t̬ə.t̬i/
something that exists apart from other things, having its own ...
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Examples of single entity

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The media are not a singleentity, but having said that, newspapers and commercial television stations are businesses, motivated by economic concerns.
The first step is to estimate the increase in profit that hospitals can obtain by acting as a singleentity.
It is a mistake, however, to view the two communities as a singleentity.
Despite these reservations, it was decided to place the entire rate book into a database, making each separate property unit a singleentity.
In theatrical performance, poetry, body, and meaning become a singleentity.
Until modern times, magic, religion, science, and medicine were a singleentity.
Given the spatio-temporal discreteness of each world a singleentity cannot enjoy transworld identity.
It is too easy to speak of birth control or family planning as a singleentity.
Of course, it remains possible that empathy really is a singleentity that happens to hold interdisciplinary relevance.
If the three channels are controlled by a singleentity, then this monopolist will choose to broadcast each type of news.
On the other hand, global or macro-conceptualisations view the care setting as a singleentity, and examine the impact of the whole setting on individuals.
Even the clear differences of presentation between the 1605 and 1607 books should never detract from consideration of the cycle as a singleentity.
They are therefore different from such other singular nouns as boy and girl, which denote only a singleentity.
Even very long for this corpus, three pages or so, texts were correctly understood as describing a singleentity.
In certain cases, the algorithm incorrectly produces two segments for a singleentity.
Interestingly, this looser definition coincides with the perception that delirium cannot be described as a singleentity.
This multiple role-playing by a singleentity is different in degree, but not in kind, from the many phases and roles each of us experiences during a single life journey.
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