Terminology Database
Terms or Phrases
- IDEF0
- identifier
- identity
- imitative copy
- inactive record
- incoming document
- incoming record
- indication of action
- indication of attachments
- information
- information system
- initialization
- inscription
- instantiation
- instructive record
- intact record
- integrated business and documentary procedures
- integrated definition function modeling method
- integrity
- intellectual content
- intellectual control
- intellectual form
- intellectual property rights
- interactive record
- interactive system
- interactivity
- internal document
- internal record
- interoperability
- intrinsic element
- inventory
- invocation
- item
Term | identity
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Dictionary Definitions
- n., 1. The identical nature of two or more things; esp., in patent law, the sameness in two devices of the function performed, the way it is performed, and the result achieved. 2. Evidence. The authenticity of a person or thing.
- n., A sameness between two items or designs such that one violates patent rights held by the other. [Webster’s New World Law Dictionary. c2006]
- n., demonstration that a certain person or thing is the person or thing in question. [The Dictionary of Canadian Law, 3rd ed. c2004]
- n., The whole of the characteristics of a document or a record that uniquely identify it and distinguish it from any other document or record. With integrity, a component of authenticity.
