entities

Conflict and competition are both categories of opposition, which has been defined as a process by which social entities function in the disservice of one another.

Instead of focusing only on the conservation of genetically-based entities like species, we now need to also consider culturally-based entities," says Andrew Whiten.

Without stirrups horse and rider are, in terms of force, separate entities; lances can be used from horseback, but only by throwing or stabbing, and mounted warriors gain only height and mobility.