entity concept
1Entity concept — [In accounting the separate entity concept treats a business as distinct and completely separate from the owners. The business stands apart from other organizations as separate economic unit. It is necessary to record the business transactions… …
2entity concept — See accounting entity …
3business entity concept — UK US noun [S] ACCOUNTING ► the idea that in accounting (= the work of preparing financial records) a business or organization is completely separate from the personal business of the people who own it or work in it: »The business entity concept… …
4concept — con‧cept [ˈkɒnsept ǁ ˈkɑːn ] noun 1. [countable] MARKETING an idea for a product: • the management of an R&D process, from an original concept through to marketing, manufacture and end use ˈmarketing ˌconcept [countable] MARKETING an idea for a… …
5separate-entity concept — See: accounting entity …
6separate-entity concept — See accounting entity …
7Entity–attribute–value model — (EAV) is a data model to describe entities where the number of attributes (properties, parameters) that can be used to describe them is potentially vast, but the number that will actually apply to a given entity is relatively modest. In… …
8Entity-attribute-value model — (EAV), also known as object attribute value model and open schema is a data model that is used in circumstances where the number of attributes (properties, parameters) that can be used to describe a thing (an entity or object ) is potentially… …
9entity — [n1] object that exists article, being, body, creature, existence, individual, item, material, matter, organism, presence, quantity, single, singleton, something, stuff, subsistence, substance, thing; concept 433 Ant. abstract, concept, idea… …
10Concept-oriented model — Example of a concept oriented model. The concept oriented model (COM) is a data model based on the following three principles: Duality principle postulates that any element consists of two parts, called identity and entity. Accordingly, data… …
