entity
In a relational database, an entity is the name of the objects about which the database stores data. For example, in an estate agent database, an entity might be a house, a buyer.
Related terms
interface
attribute
entity relationship diagram
many to many
normalisation
normalise
one to many
one to one
relational database
tuple
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