Classes
disposition (class)
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000016
Definition: (Elucidation) A disposition b is a realizable entity such that if b ceases to exist then its bearer is physically changed & b's realization occurs when and because this bearer is in some special physical circumstances & this realization occurs in virtue of the bearer's physical make-up
Subclass of: realizable entity
Permalinks: #BFO_0000016 #disposition
role (class)
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000023
Definition: (Elucidation) A role b is a realizable entity such that b exists because there is some single bearer that is in some special physical, social, or institutional set of circumstances in which this bearer does not have to be & b is not such that, if it ceases to exist, then the physical make-up of the bearer is thereby changed
Subclass of: realizable entity
Permalinks: #BFO_0000023 #role
function (class)
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000034
Definition: (Elucidation) A function is a disposition that exists in virtue of its bearer's physical make-up & this physical make-up is something the bearer possesses because it came into being either through evolution (in the case of natural biological entities) or through intentional design (in the case of artefacts) in order to realize processes of a certain sort
Subclass of: disposition
Permalinks: #BFO_0000034 #function
Change (class)
IRI: https://www.commoncoreontologies.org/ont00000004
Definition: A Process in which some independent continuant endures and 1) one or more of the dependent entities it bears increase or decrease in intensity, 2) the entity begins to bear some dependent entity or 3) the entity ceases to bear some dependent entity.
Subclass of: process
Permalinks: #ont00000004 #change
Town (class)
IRI: https://www.commoncoreontologies.org/ont00000071
Definition: A Local Administrative Region in which a human population permanently resides that is typically larger than the population of a Village but smaller than that of a City; is designated as a town based on a particular administrative, legal, or historical status; and which delimits a local Government that typically exercises less power than that of a City Government.
Subclass of: Local Administrative Region
Permalinks: #ont00000071 #town
Translucent (class)
IRI: https://www.commoncoreontologies.org/ont00000112
Definition: An Opacity that inheres in a bearer in virtue of that bearer's capacity to transmit some but not all electromagnetic radiation of a given frequency through the bearer such that the bearer reflects, scatters, or absorbs some but not all electromagnetic radiation of that frequency.
Subclass of: Opacity
Permalinks: #ont00000112 #translucent
Thrust (class)
IRI: https://www.commoncoreontologies.org/ont00000179
Definition: A Force that is equal in magnitude to but in the opposite direction of an exerted Force and which is used to describe the forward Force of a Jet or Rocket Engine in reaction to the Acceleration of its Reaction Mass in the opposite direction.
Subclass of: Force
Permalinks: #ont00000179 #thrust
Act of Terrorist Training Instruction (class)
IRI: https://www.commoncoreontologies.org/ont00000202
Definition: An Act of Training Instruction performed by an Agent who realizes a capacity derived from the Agent's affiliation with some Terrorist Organization by imparting knowledge of the tactics, techniques, and/or strategies of the use of violence against civilians in order to attain goals that are political, religous, or ideological in nature to an Agent either directly or indirectly through some communication medium.
Subclass of: Act of Training Instruction
Permalinks: #ont00000202 #act-of-terrorist-training-instruction
Fuel Cell (class)
IRI: https://www.commoncoreontologies.org/ont00000477
Definition: An Electrical Power Source that consists in part of an anode, a cathode, and an electrolyte; converts chemical energy from a fuel into electricity through a chemical reaction of positively charged hydrogen ions with an oxidizing agent (typically oxygen); and, if given a continuous source of fuel and oxidizing agent, can continuously produce electricity.
Subclass of: Electrical Power Source
Permalinks: #ont00000477 #fuel-cell
Transparent (class)
IRI: https://www.commoncoreontologies.org/ont00000525
Definition: An Opacity that inheres in a bearer in virtue of that bearer's capacity to transmit all or nearly all electromagnetic radiation of a given frequency through the bearer such that the bearer reflects, scatters, or absorbs little or no electromagnetic radiation of that frequency.
Subclass of: Opacity
Permalinks: #ont00000525 #transparent
Convergent-Divergent Nozzle (class)
IRI: https://www.commoncoreontologies.org/ont00000698
Definition: A Nozzle that consists of a tube with an asymmetric hourglass shape that is designed to accelerate hot pressurized gas by converting the heat energy of the gas flow into kinetic energy as it passes through the Nozzle Throat to generate increased Exhaust Velocity of the gas as it exits the Nozzle.
Subclass of: Nozzle
Permalinks: #ont00000698 #convergent-divergent-nozzle
Semi-automatic Pistol (class)
IRI: https://www.commoncoreontologies.org/ont00000711
Definition: A Hand Gun that has a single fixed firing chamber machined into the rear of the barrel and an ammunition magazine capable of holding multiple Cartridges such that the Hand Gun is designed to automatically reload each time it is fired and to fire a Bullet with each successive pull of the trigger until the stored ammunition is depleted.
Subclass of: Hand Gun
Permalinks: #ont00000711 #semi-automatic-pistol
Cryogenic Storage Dewar (class)
IRI: https://www.commoncoreontologies.org/ont00000720
Definition: A Container that is designed to store a Portion of Cryogenic Material (such as liquid helium or liquid oxygen) and which consists of, minimally, walls that are constructed from two or more layers that are separated by a high vacuum to provide thermal insulation between the interior and exterior of the dewar.
Subclass of: Container
Permalinks: #ont00000720 #cryogenic-storage-dewar
Spherical Coordinate System (class)
IRI: https://www.commoncoreontologies.org/ont00000729
Definition: A Spatial Reference System for three-dimensional spatial regions that identifies each point using an ordered triple of numerical coordinates that consist of the radial distance of the point of interest from a fixed origin, its polar angle measured from a fixed zenith direction, and the azimuth angle of its orthogonal projection measured from a fixed direction on a reference plane that passes through the origin and is orthogonal to the zenith.
Subclass of: Spatial Reference System
Permalinks: #ont00000729 #spherical-coordinate-system
City (class)
IRI: https://www.commoncoreontologies.org/ont00000887
Definition: A Local Administrative Region in which a relatively large human population permanently resides; is designated as a city based on a particular administrative, legal, or historical status; and which delimits a local Government that typically oversees the provision of systems for sanitation, utilities, land usage, housing, and transportation.
Subclass of: Local Administrative Region
Permalinks: #ont00000887 #city
Propelling Nozzle (class)
IRI: https://www.commoncoreontologies.org/ont00001117
Definition: A Nozzle that is used to convert a propulsion Engine into a Jet Engine and functions by using its narrowest part, the throat, to increase Pressure within the Engine by constricting flow, usually until the flow chokes, then expanding the exhaust stream to, or near to, atmospheric pressure, while forming it into a high speed jet to propel the Vehicle.
Subclass of: Nozzle
Permalinks: #ont00001117 #propelling-nozzle
Radio Receiver (class)
IRI: https://www.commoncoreontologies.org/ont00001145
Definition: A Radio Communication Instrument that is an electronic device that is designed to extract information from radio waves intercepted by a Radio Antenna by using electronic filters to separate the desired radio frequency signal from other signals, an electronic amplifier to increase the power of the signal, and demodulation to recover the desired information.
Subclass of: Radio Communication Instrument
Permalinks: #ont00001145 #radio-receiver
Opaque (class)
IRI: https://www.commoncoreontologies.org/ont00001220
Definition: An Opacity that inheres in a bearer in virtue of that bearer's incapacity to transmit electromagnetic radiation of a given frequency through the bearer such that the bearer reflects, scatters, or absorbs all electromagnetic radiation of that frequency.
Subclass of: Opacity
Permalinks: #ont00001220 #opaque
Solar Panel System (class)
IRI: https://www.commoncoreontologies.org/ont00001222
Definition: An Electrical Power Source that consists in part of one or more Solar Panels, a power inverter, electrical wiring between the components, a mounting and support structure, and may also include a battery and/or a solar tracking system and is the bearer of functions realized in processes of deriving, transferring, and storing electrical energy derived from light energy.
Subclass of: Electrical Power Source
Permalinks: #ont00001222 #solar-panel-system
Behavior (class)
IRI: https://www.commoncoreontologies.org/ont00001347
Definition: An Act in which an Independent Continuant participates as an Agent in response to external or internal stimuli and following some pattern which is dependent upon some combination of that Independent Continuant's internal state and external conditions.
Subclass of: Act
Permalinks: #ont00001347 #behavior
Object Properties
participates in (object property)
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000056
Definition: (Elucidation) participates in holds between some b that is either a specifically dependent continuant or generically dependent continuant or independent continuant that is not a spatial region & some process p such that b participates in p some way
Range: process
Permalinks: #BFO_0000056 #participates-in
precedes (object property)
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000063
Definition: (Elucidation) precedes is a relation between occurrents o, o' such that if t is the temporal extent of o & t' is the temporal extent of o' then either the last instant of o is before the first instant of o' or the last instant of o is the first instant of o' & neither o nor o' are temporal instants
Domain: occurrent
Range: occurrent
Permalinks: #BFO_0000063 #precedes
occurs in (object property)
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000066
Definition: b occurs in c =Def b is a process or a process boundary & c is a material entity or site & there exists a spatiotemporal region r & b occupies spatiotemporal region r & for all time t, if b exists at t then c exists at t & there exist spatial regions s and s' where b spatially projects onto s at t & c occupies spatial region s' at t & s is a continuant part of s' at t
Permalinks: #BFO_0000066 #occurs-in
temporal part of (object property)
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000139
Definition: b temporal part of c =Def b occurrent part of c & (b and c are temporal regions) or (b and c are spatiotemporal regions & b temporally projects onto an occurrent part of the temporal region that c temporally projects onto) or (b and c are processes or process boundaries & b occupies a temporal region that is an occurrent part of the temporal region that c occupies)
Domain: occurrent
Range: occurrent
Permalinks: #BFO_0000139 #temporal-part-of
located in (object property)
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000171
Definition: b located in c =Def b is an independent continuant & c is an independent & neither is a spatial region & there is some time t such that the spatial region which b occupies at t is continuant part of the spatial region which c occupies at t
Permalinks: #BFO_0000171 #located-in
occupies spatial region (object property)
IRI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000210
Definition: b occupies spatial region r =Def b is an independent continuant that is not a spatial region & r is a spatial region & there is some time t such that every continuant part of b occupies some continuant part of r at t and no continuant part of b occupies any spatial region that is not a continuant part of r at t
Range: spatial region
Permalinks: #BFO_0000210 #occupies-spatial-region
uses (object property)
IRI: https://www.commoncoreontologies.org/ont00001813
Definition: x uses y iff x is an instance of an Agent and y is an instance of a Material Entity, such that both x and y participate in some instance of a Process wherein x attempts to accomplish a goal by manipulating, deploying, or leveraging some attribute of y.
Permalinks: #ont00001813 #uses
is excerpted from (object property)
IRI: https://www.commoncoreontologies.org/ont00001824
Definition: An Information Bearing Entity b1 is excerpted from another Information Bearing Entity B2 iff b1 is part of some Information Bearing Entity B1 that is carrier of some Information Content Entity C1, B2 is carrier of some Information Content Entity C2, C1 is not identical with C2, b1 is carrier of some Information Content Entity c1, b2 is an Information Bearing Entity that is part of B2 and b2 is carrier of c1 (i.e. the same Information Content Entity as borne by b1).
Domain: Information Bearing Entity
Range: Information Bearing Entity
Permalinks: #ont00001824 #is-excerpted-from
is subordinate role to (object property)
IRI: https://www.commoncoreontologies.org/ont00001831
Definition: For all x,y,t: y is subordinate role to x at t iff: x is an instance of Role at time t, and y is an instance of Role at time t, and there is some z such that x is realized by z and z is an instance of Process which creates, modifies, transfers, or eliminates some u such that u is a Process Regulation at time t, and u is addressed to the bearer of y.
Domain: role
Range: role
Permalinks: #ont00001831 #is-subordinate-role-to
condition described by (object property)
IRI: https://www.commoncoreontologies.org/ont00001884
Definition: c condition_described_by p iff p is an instance of a Performance Specification, and p has part d, and d is an instance of a Descriptive Information Content Entity, and p prescribes an entity s, and d describes c, and c is an entity that is causally relevant to s existing as prescribed by p.
Permalinks: #ont00001884 #condition-described-by
is used by (object property)
IRI: https://www.commoncoreontologies.org/ont00001925
Definition: x is_used_by y iff y is an instance of an Agent and x is an instance of a Material Entity, such that both x and y participate in some instance of a Process wherein y attempts to accomplish a goal by manipulating, deploying, leveraging some attribute of y.
Permalinks: #ont00001925 #is-used-by
process starts (object property)
IRI: https://www.commoncoreontologies.org/ont00001933
Definition: x process_starts y iff x and y are instances of processes, and x is_cause_of y, and i is an instance of a temporal instant, and r is an instant of a temporal interval, and y has starting instance i, and x occurs on r, and r interval contains i.
Permalinks: #ont00001933 #process-starts
has subordinate role (object property)
IRI: https://www.commoncoreontologies.org/ont00001951
Definition: For all x,y,t: x has subordinate role y at t iff: x is an instance of Role at time t, and y is an instance of Role at time t, and there is some z such that x is realized by z and z is an instance of Process which creates, modifies, transfers, or eliminates some u such that u is a Process Regulation at time t, and u is addressed to the bearer of y.
Domain: role
Range: role
Permalinks: #ont00001951 #has-subordinate-role
process started by (object property)
IRI: https://www.commoncoreontologies.org/ont00001962
Definition: x process_started_by y iff x and y are instances of processes, and x is caused_by y, and i is an instance of a temporal instant, and r is an instant of a temporal interval, and x has starting instance i, and y occurs on r, and r interval contains i.
Permalinks: #ont00001962 #process-started-by
describes condition (object property)
IRI: https://www.commoncoreontologies.org/ont00001980
Definition: p describes_condition c iff p is an instance of a Performance Specification, and p has part d, and d is an instance of a Descriptive Information Content Entity, and p prescribes an entity s, and d describes c, and c is an entity that is causally relevant to s existing as prescribed by p.
Permalinks: #ont00001980 #describes-condition
Data Properties