Identity

Identity may refer to:

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Philosophical topics

• Identity (philosophy), also called sameness, is whatever makes an entity definable and recognizable
• Law of identity, principle of logic stating that an object is the same as itself
• Personal identity, the numerical identity (continuity of existence) of persons through time

Personal conception and expression

• Gender identity, also known as core gender identity, the gender(s) or lack thereof, that a person self-identifies
• Identity formation, the process of the development of the distinct personality of an individual
• Identity (social science), individuality, personal identity, social identity, and cultural identity in psychology, sociology, and philosophy
• Persona, a social role or a character played by an actor with oneself
• Sexual identity, how people identify their own sexuality
• National identity, a person's citizenship, immigration status or their allegiance to a country^[1]

Specifications of persons

• Identity change
• Identity document
• Identity theft, the deliberate appropriation of someone else's identity (without that person's permission) for criminal purposes
• Personally identifiable information
• Personal Development

Group expression and affiliation

• Christian Identity, a Christian religious movement
• Cultural identity, person's self-affiliation (or categorization by others) as a member of a cultural group
• Identity politics, political arguments that focus upon the self-interest and perspectives of social interest groups or minorities
• National identity, belief in membership of a nation

Mathematics

• Identity element, a special element in a set or structure with respect to an operator
• Identity function, a function that does not alter its argument
• Identity (mathematics), an equality that holds regardless of the values of its variables
• Identity matrix, a square matrix with ones on the main diagonal, zeros elsewhere

Business

• Accounting identity, calculation or measurement that must be true regardless of the value of its variables
• Corporate identity, "persona" of a corporation by way of branding or use of trademarks
• Brand Identity, what the owner wants to communicate to its potential consumers.

Computer science

• Digital identity, representation of a set of claims made by one digital subject about itself or another digital subject
• Federated identity, assembled identity of a person's user information, stored across multiple distinct identity management systems
• Identity column, database field that uniquely identifies every row in the table and is made up of values generated by the database
• Identity management, administrative area that deals with identifying individuals in a system and controlling access to resources by placing restrictions on them
• Identity (object-oriented programming), the property of objects that distinguishes them from other objects
• Online identity, social identity that an internet user establishes in online communities and websites
• Identity 3.0, the next generation of "digital identity" that moves beyond the initial concept and updates "Identity 2.0"

Culture and the arts

• iD eNTITY, manhwa series created by Son Hee-joon, along with Kim Youn-kyung, distributed by Tokyopop in North America

Music

• Identity (music), a transformation of pitches in music
• Identity (tuning), an odd member below and including a limit

Albums

• Identity (Zee album), 1984 album by Richard Wright and Dave Harris of Zee
• Identity (BoA album), 2010 album by BoA
• Identity (3T album), 2004
• Identity (Raghav album), 2008
• Identity (Robert Pierre album), 2009
• Identity (EP), an EP by Time Is A Thief

Songs

• "Identity" (Sakanaction song), 2010 song by Sakanaction
• Identity (X-Ray Spex song), a single and song by X-Ray Spex, P. Styrene from the album Germfree Adolescents
• "Identity", 1983 song by Bucks Fizz. B-side to "London Town"

Film and TV

• "Identity" (Charlie Jade), an episode of the television series Charlie Jade
• Identity (TV series), a British police procedural drama television series
• "Identity", an episode of the TV series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
• "Identity" (Burn Notice), second episode of the USA Network television drama series
• Identity (film), directed by James Mangold and starring John Cusack
• Identity (game show), a game show
• Identity (Legend of the Seeker), an episode of Legend of the Seeker

Books

• Identity (novel), by Milan Kundera
• The name of the BNP magazine

See also

Wikiquote has quotations related to: Identity

• All pages with titles containing Identity
• Biometrics
• Entity
• Identification (disambiguation)
• Secret identity (disambiguation)
• Diversity

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