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								the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity you can lose your identity when you join the army
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								the individual characteristics by which a thing or person is recognized or known
 geneticists only recently discovered the identity of the gene that causes it
 it was too dark to determine his identity
 she guessed the identity of his lover
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								an operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates
 the identity under numerical multiplication is 1
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								exact sameness
 they shared an identity of interests
 
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