entity vs sheaf

entity

noun
  • Anything about which information or data can be stored in a database; in particular, an organised array or set of individual elements or parts. 

  • That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit. Often used for organisations which have no physical form. 

  • The state or quality of being or existence. 

  • An alien lifeform that has no corporeal body. 

  • A spirit, ghost, or the like. 

  • The existence of something considered apart from its properties. 

sheaf

noun
  • Any collection of things bound together. 

  • A quantity of arrows, usually twenty-four. 

  • A bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer. 

  • An abstract construct in topology that associates data to the open sets of a topological space, together with well-defined restrictions from larger to smaller open sets, subject to the condition that compatible data on overlapping open sets corresponds, via the restrictions, to a unique datum on the union of the open sets. 

  • A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw. 

  • A sheave. 

verb
  • To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves 

  • To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves. 

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