Identity

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Identity may refer to one of the following:

In creative works:

Identity (book) is a novel written by Milan Kundera.
Identity (film) is a movie starring John Cusack.
Identity (album) is an album from Zee with Richard Wright and Dave Harris.
Identity (music), a transformation of pitches in music.

In business:

Corporate identity is the physical manifestation of a business brand.
Identity theft is the deliberate appropriation of someone else's identity (without that person's permission) for criminal purposes.

In social science and psychology:

Identity (social science) (or "social identity"). In the social sciences, identity has specific meanings, stemming from cognitive theory, sociology, politics, and psychology. See also identity politics.
Cultural identity is a person's self-affiliation (or categorization by others) as a member of a cultural group.
Gender identity is the gender with which a person identifies (or is identified by others).
Digital identity is the representation of identity in terms of digital information.
Online identity is the digital identity established by computer network users.
Psychological identity is the concept that an individual has a unique identity developed relatively late in history.

In philosophy:

Identity (philosophy) is the sameness of two things (also see law of identity)
Identity theory of mind, in the philosophy of mind, holds that the mind is identical to the brain
Personal identity, in philosophy

In mathematics:

An identity is an equality that holds regardless of the values of its variables.
An identity object is an entity that does not change other objects: see identity function, identity element, identity matrix, and identity morphism.

In computer science:

Identity (object-oriented programming), a property of objects that allows those objects to be distinguished from each other.

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