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A entity:

• have a name
• have a scope
• is created by a declaration statement
• is stored in a variable
• have a value

The scope and name of the entity are the identity of the entity. See Logical Data Modeling - Key

See also: Logical Data Modeling - Entity Set (Class, Table) (Merge or split?)

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Example

• functions,
• variables (including constants)
• types,
• statement labels
• package

Operations

Operations on entity:

• being passed as an argument,
• returned from a function,
• modified,
• and assigned to a variable.