A real-world entity is an entity which exists in a real-world environment, such as a human entity or a physical object, as opposed to an artificial entity which exists in an artificial environment, such as a computational entity in a computational environment, or a virtual entity in a virtual world.
Synonym for real entity.
Synonym for real-world object.
See also: artificial entity, virtual entity.
Singular of real-world entities.
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