What is the exact meaning of the JPA @Entity annotation?

Question

I am studying JPA in Spring application and I have some doubts related to the @Entity annotation.

So I have a model class like this:

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Answer 1

Entities in JPA are nothing but POJOs representing data that can be persisted to the database. An entity represents a table stored in a database. Every instance of an entity represents a row in the table.

More about the entities: https://www.baeldung.com/jpa-entities