camouflage vs identity

camouflage

noun
  • A disguise or covering up. 

  • A pattern on clothing consisting of irregularly shaped patches that are either greenish/brownish, brownish/whitish, or bluish/whitish, as used by ground combat forces. 

  • The use of natural or artificial material on personnel, objects, or tactical positions with the aim of confusing, misleading, or evading the enemy. 

  • The act of disguising. 

  • Resemblance of an organism to its surroundings for avoiding detection. 

  • Clothes made from camouflage fabric, for concealment in combat or hunting. 

verb
  • To hide or disguise something by covering it up or changing the way it looks. 

identity

noun
  • A name or persona—a mask or appearance one presents to the world—by which one is known. 

  • An element of an algebraic structure which, when applied to another element under an operation in that structure, yields this second element. 

  • A well-known or famous person. 

  • The difference or character that marks off an individual or collective from the rest of the same kind; selfhood; the sense of who something or someone or oneself is, or the recurring characteristics that enable the recognition of such an individual or group by others or themself. 

  • An equation which always holds true regardless of the choice of input variables. 

  • Sameness, identicalness; the quality or fact of (several specified things) being the same. 

  • Any function which maps all elements of its domain to themselves. 

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