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A stand-alone file containing the eleven mid-level Common Core Ontologies plus BFO. Provided for use-cases where one file representing a specific release of CCO and its imports is desirable.
Common Core Ontologies Merged
Depends on http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/bfo/2020/bfo-core.ttl, obtained 11/03/2024.
Version 2.0
query text
The text of a query that is associated with a class
doctrinal definition
A Definition that is taken directly from a Doctrinal Source.
There is only one definition for any given term in an ontology; however, a Doctrinal Definition may be provided in addition to the asserted Definition if the preservation of this information is important. When both a Definition and a Doctrinal Definition are provided for a term, the Definition takes precedence.
SI unit label
An Alternative Label that is officially accepted for use in the International System of Units (SI) as denoting a Measurement Unit.
ordinal measurement annotation
An ordinal measurement value of an instance of a quality, realizable or process profile
SI unit symbol
An Acronym that is officially accepted for use in the International System of Units (SI) as denoting a Measurement Unit.
nominal measurement annotation
A nominal measurement value of an instance of a quality, realizable or process profile
term creator
The name of the Term Editor who added the term to the ontology.
content license
The name and description of the license under which the ideas, concepts and other informational content expressed in the .owl file are released.
copyright
An assertion of copyright
doctrinal source
A Definition Source that consists of a formalized doctrine in which the term is authoritatively defined.
measurement annotation
A measurement value of an instance of a quality, realizable or process profile
ratio measurement annotation
A ratio measurement value of an instance of a quality, realizable or process profile
doctrinal label
An Alternative Label that consists of the preferred term or phrase used by a Doctrinal Source to denote the entity.
When the cco:doctrinal_label is identical to the rdfs:label, the cco:doctrinal_label annotation is superfluous. As a subclass of 'alternative label', 'doctrinal label' is intended to be used to provide additional information about the entity when its preferred doctrinal designator is ambiguous or otherwise inappropriate for use as the rdfs:label.
doctrinal acronym
An Acronym that is used by a Doctrinal Source to denote the entity.
has token unit
A relation between an information content entity and a widely used measurement unit of the token used to express it.
acronym
An Alternative Label that consists of a shortened or abbreviated form of the rdfs:label and is used to denote the entity.
definition source
A citation of where all or some of the information used to create the term's Definition was acquired from.
interval measurement annotation
A interval measurement value of an instance of a quality, realizable or process profile
designator annotation
A name or other identifier that is used to designate an individual.
http query string
The text of an HTTP request that can be sent to a SPARQL Protocol service.
code license
The name and description of the license under which the .owl file is released.
is curated in ontology
An annotation property that links a class, property, or named individual to the URI of the ontology where it is located.
is tokenized by
A relation between an information content entity and a widely used token used to express it.
term editor
The name of a person who contributed to the development or enhancement of the term.
has realization
realized in
b has realization c =Def c realizes b
As for realizes
realizes
(Elucidation) realizes is a relation between a process b and realizable entity c such that c inheres in some d & for all t, if b has participant d then c exists & the type instantiated by b is correlated with the type instantiated by c
A balding process realizes a disposition to go bald; a studying process realizes a student role; a process of pumping blood realizes the pumping function of a heart
participates in
(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
Users that require more sophisticated representations of time are encouraged to import a temporal extension of BFO-Core provided by the BFO development team. See documentation for guidance: <https://github.com/BFO-ontology/BFO-2020/tree/master/src/owl/profiles/temporal%20extensions>
has participant
p has participant c =Def c participates in p
is concretized by
c is concretized by b =Def b concretizes c
concretizes
b concretizes c =Def b is a process or a specifically dependent continuant & c is a generically dependent continuant & there is some time t such that c is the pattern or content which b shares at t with actual or potential copies
preceded by
b preceded by c =Def b precedes c
The temporal region occupied by the second half of the match is preceded by the temporal region occupied by the first half of the match
precedes
(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
The temporal region occupied by Mary's birth precedes the temporal region occupied by Mary's death.
Each temporal region is its own temporal extent. The temporal extent of a spatiotemporal region is the temporal region it temporally projects onto. The temporal extent of a process or process boundary that occupies temporal region t is t.
Precedes defines a strict partial order on occurrents.
occurs in
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
A process of digestion occurs in the interior of an organism; a process of loading artillery rounds into a tank cannon occurs in the interior of the tank
generically depends on
g-depends on
b generically depends on c =Def b is a generically dependent continuant & c is an independent continuant that is not a spatial region & at some time t there inheres in c a specifically dependent continuant which concretizes b at t
is carrier of
b is carrier of c =Def there is some time t such that c generically depends on b at t
exists at
(Elucidation) exists at is a relation between a particular and some temporal region at which the particular exists
First World War exists at 1914-1916; Mexico exists at January 1, 2000
has member part
b has member part c =Def c member part of b
has occurrent part
b has occurrent part c =Def c occurrent part of b
Mary's life has occurrent part Mary's 5th birthday
has temporal part
b has temporal part c =Def c temporal part of b
Your life has temporal part the first year of your life
location of
b location of c =Def c located in b
material basis of
b material basis of c =Def c has material basis b
member part of
b member part of c =Def b is an object & c is a material entity & there is some time t such that b continuant part of c at t & there is a mutually exhaustive and pairwise disjoint partition of c into objects x1, ..., xn (for some n ≠ 1) with b = xi (for some 1 <= i <= n)
occurrent part of
(Elucidation) occurrent part of is a relation between occurrents b and c when b is part of c
Mary's 5th birthday is an occurrent part of Mary's life; the first set of the tennis match is an occurrent part of the tennis match
temporal part of
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)
Your heart beating from 4pm to 5pm today is a temporal part of the process of your heart beating; the 4th year of your life is a temporal part of your life, as is the process boundary which separates the 3rd and 4th years of your life; the first quarter of a game of football is a temporal part of the whole game
temporally projects onto
(Elucidation) temporally projects onto is a relation between a spatiotemporal region s and some temporal region which is the temporal extent of s
The world line of a particle temporally projects onto the temporal region extending from the beginning to the end of the existence of the particle
located in
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
continuant part of
b continuant part of c =Def b and c are continuants & there is some time t such that b and c exist at t & b continuant part of c at t
Milk teeth continuant part of human; surgically removed tumour continuant part of organism
has continuant part
b has continuant part c =Def c continuant part of b
environs
contains process
b environs c =Def c occurs in b
Mouth environs process of mastication; city environs traffic
history of
(Elucidation) history of is a relation between history b and material entity c such that b is the unique history of c
This life is the history of this organism
has history
b has history c =Def c history of b
This organism has history this life
specifically depended on by
s-depended on by
b specifically depended on by c =Def c specifically depends on b
Coloured object specifically depended on by colour
specifically depends on
s-depends on
(Elucidation) specifically depends on is a relation between a specifically dependent continuant b and specifically dependent continuant or independent continuant that is not a spatial region c such that b and c share no parts in common & b is of a nature such that at all times t it cannot exist unless c exists & b is not a boundary of c
A shape specifically depends on the shaped object; hue, saturation and brightness of a colour sample specifically depends on each other
The analogue of specifically depends on for occurrents is has participant.
bearer of
b bearer of c =Def c inheres in b
A patch of ink is the bearer of a colour quality; an organism is the bearer of a temperature quality
inheres in
b inheres in c =Def b is a specifically dependent continuant & c is an independent continuant that is not a spatial region & b specifically depends on c
A shape inheres in a shaped object; a mass inheres in a material entity
occupies temporal region
p occupies temporal region t =Def p is a process or process boundary & the spatiotemporal region occupied by p temporally projects onto t
The Second World War occupies the temporal region September 1, 1939 - September 2, 1945
occupies spatiotemporal region
(Elucidation) occupies spatiotemporal region is a relation between a process or process boundary p and the spatiotemporal region s which is its spatiotemporal extent
A particle emitted by a nuclear reactor occupies the spatiotemporal region which is its trajectory
occupies spatial region
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
spatially projects onto
(Elucidation) spatially projects onto is a relation between some spatiotemporal region b and spatial region c such that at some time t, c is the spatial extent of b at t
has material basis
b has material basis c =Def b is a disposition & c is a material entity & there is some d bearer of b & there is some time t such that c is a continuant part of d at t & d has disposition b because c is a continuant part of d at t
first instant of
t first instant of t' =Def t is a temporal instant & t' is a temporal region t' & t precedes all temporal parts of t' other than t
An hour starting at midnight yesterday has first instant midnight yesterday
has first instant
t has first instant t' =Def t' first instant of t
The first hour of a year has first instant midnight on December 31
last instant of
t last instant of t' =Def t is a temporal instant & t' is a temporal region & all temporal parts of t' other than t precede t
Last midnight is the last instant of yesterday
has last instant
t has last instant t' =Def t' last instant of t
The last hour of a year has last instant midnight December 31
has brother
is successor of
A continuant c2 is a successor of some continuant c1 iff there is some process p1 and c1 is an input to p1 and c2 is an output of p1. Inverse of is predecessor.
has grandfather
has process part
x has_process_part y iff x and y are instances of Process, such that y occurs during the temporal interval of x, and y either provides an input to x or receives an output of x, or both.
has object
If p is a process and c is a continuant, then p has object c if and only if p is performed by an agent and c is part of the projected state that agent intends to achieve by performing p.
has inside instant
For Temporal Interval t1 and Temporal Instant t2, t1 has inside instant t2 if and only if there exists Temporal Instants t3 and t4 that are part of t1 and non-identical with t2, such that t3 is before t2 and t4 is after t2.
J. F. Allen and J. A. G. M. Koomen. Planning using a temporal world model. In Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-1983) pages 741–747. Available at: https://www.ijcai.org/Proceedings/83-2/Papers/036.pdf
has mother
has step sister
has all members located in
x has all members located in y iff x is an instance of Object Aggregate and y is an instance of independent continuant but not a spatial region, and every member of x is located in y.
is granddaughter of
has son in law
has uncle
is mother of
agent in
x agent_in y iff y is an instance of Process and x is an instance of Agent, such that x is causally active in y.
has paternal aunt
has aunt
has maternal uncle
coincides with
An immaterial entity im1 coincides with some immaterial entity im2 iff im1 is a spatial part of im2 and im2 is a spatial part of im1.
Given a stronger temporal interpretation, this property may be transitive and symmetric. For more info please refer to https://github.com/BFO-ontology/BFO-2020/tree/master/src/owl/temporal%20extensions.
has sister
has half sister
has subsidiary
An Organization o1 has_subsidiary Organization o2 iff o1 controls o2 by having the capacity to determine the outcome of decisions about o2's financial and operating policies.
has inside interval
A Temporal Interval INT2 has inside interval some Temporal Interval INT1 iff there exist Temporal Instants inst1, inst2, inst3, and inst4 such that inst1 is the starting instant of INT1, inst2 is the ending instant of INT1, inst3 is the starting instant of INT2, inst4 is the ending instant of INT2, inst3 is before inst1, and inst2 is before inst4.
tangential part of
An immaterial entity im1 is a tangential part of some immaterial entity im2 iff im1 is a spatial part of im2 and there exists some immaterial entity im3 such that im3 externally connects with im1 and im3 externally connects with im2.
Given a stronger temporal interpretation, this property may be transitive. For more info please refer to https://github.com/BFO-ontology/BFO-2020/tree/master/src/owl/temporal%20extensions.
Randell, D. A., Cui, Z. and Cohn, A. G.: 1992, "A spatial logic based on regions and connection," Proc. 3rd Int. Conf. on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo, pp. 165-176. Available at: https://www.dpi.inpe.br/gilberto/references/cohn_rcc.pdf
partially overlaps with
An immaterial entity im1 partially overlaps with some immaterial entity im2 iff im1 overlaps with im2 and im1 is not a spatial part of im2 and im2 is not a spatial part of im1.
Given a stronger temporal interpretation, this property may be symmetric. For more info please refer to https://github.com/BFO-ontology/BFO-2020/tree/master/src/owl/temporal%20extensions.
is supervised by
A person p1 is supervised by a person p2 by virtue of p1 being directed, managed, or overseen by p2.
role of aggregate
x role_of_aggregate y iff y is an instance of Object Aggregate and x is an instance of Role, and x inheres_in_aggregate y.
prohibits
x prohibits y at t iff: x is an instance of Process Regulation at time t, and y is an instance of Process at time t, and x prescribes that some y must not occur.
Given a stronger temporal interpretation, this property may be asymmetric and irreflexive. For more info please refer to https://github.com/BFO-ontology/BFO-2020/tree/master/src/owl/temporal%20extensions.
is subject of
A primitive relationship between an instance of an Entity and an instance of an Information Content Entity.
has husband
is cause of
x is_cause_of y iff x and y are instances of Occurrent, and y is a consequence of x.
is spouse of
is disrupted by
is first cousin of
is required by
y is_required_by x at t iff: x is an instance of Process Regulation at time t, and y is an instance of Process at time t, and x prescribes that y must occur.
is about
A primitive relationship between an Information Content Entity and some Entity.
inheres in aggregate
x inheres_in_aggregate y iff x is an instance of Specifically Dependent Continuant and y is an instance of Object Aggregate and z is an instance of Object, such that z bearer_of x, and all other members of y are bearers of a unique instance of the same type as x.
connected with
An immaterial entity im1 is connected with some immaterial entity im2 iff there exists some immaterial entity im3 that is common to both im1 and im2.
is a ordinal measurement of
x is_a_ordinal_measurement_of y iff x is an instance of Information Content Entity and y is an instance of Entity, such that x describes some attribute of y relative to a scale ordered by rank.
is grandson of
uses
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.
interval finishes
A Temporal Interval INT1 finishes some Temporal Interval INT2 iff there exists Temporal Instants inst1, inst2, and inst3 such that inst 1 is the starting instant of INT1, inst2 is the ending instant of both INT1 and INT2, inst3 is the starting instant of INT2, and inst3 is before inst1.
is subsidiary of
An Organization o2 is_subsidiary_of Organization o1 iff o1 controls o2 by having the capacity to determine the outcome of decisions about o2's financial and operating policies.
is output of
x is_output_of y iff x is an instance of Continuant and y is an instance of Process, such that the presence of x at the end of y is a necessary condition for the completion of y.
is prohibited by
y is_prohibited_by y at t iff: x is an instance of Process Regulation at time t, and y is an instance of Process at time t, and x prescribes that y must not occur.
is in-law of
caused by
x caused_by y iff x and y are instances of Occurrent, and x is a consequence of y.
has granddaughter
interval finished by
A Temporal Interval INT2 is finished by some Temporal Interval INT1 iff there exists Temporal Instants inst1, inst2, and inst3 such that inst 1 is the starting instant of INT1, inst2 is the ending instant of both INT1 and INT2, inst3 is the starting instant of INT2, and inst3 is before inst1.
interval equals
A Temporal Interval INT1 is equal to some Temporal Interval INT2 iff there exists Temporal Instants inst1 and inst2 such that inst1 is the starting instant of both INT1 and INT2 and inst2 is the ending instant of both INT1 and INT2.
has paternal uncle
is excerpted from
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).
interval overlaps
A Temporal Interval INT1 overlaps some Temporal Interval INT2 iff there exist Temporal Instants inst1, inst2, inst3, inst4 such that inst1 is the starting instant of INT1, inst2 is the ending instant of INT1, inst3 is the starting instant of INT2, inst4 is the ending instant of INT2, inst1 is before inst3, inst3 is before inst2, and inst2 is before inst4.
is sister-in-law of
nontangential part of
An immaterial entity im1 is a nontangential part of some immaterial entity im2 iff im1 is a spatial part of im2 and there does not exist an immaterial entity im3 such that im3 externally connects with im1 and im3 externally connects with im2.
has sister in law
disposition of aggregate
x disposition_of_aggregate y iff y is an instance of Object Aggregate and x is an instance of Disposition, and x inheres_in_aggregate y.
has accomplice
A Processual Entity p1 has_accomplice some agent a1 iff a1 assists in the commission of p1, is located at the location of p1, but is not agent_in p1.
is subordinate role to
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.
has some member located in
x has some member located in y iff x is an instance of Object Aggregate and y is an instance of independent continuant but not a spatial region, and at least one member of x is located in y.
has agent
x has_agent y iff x is an instance of Process and y is an instance of Agent, such that y is causally active in x.
affects
x affects y iff x is an instance of Process and y is an instance of Continuant, and x influences y in some manner, most often by producing a change in y.
is son of
aggregate bearer of
x aggregate_bearer_of y iff x is an instance of Object Aggregate and y is an instance of Specifically Dependent Continuant and z is an instance of Object, such that z bearer of y, and all other members of x are bearers of a unique instance of the same type as y.
time zone identifier used by
x time_zone_identifier_used_by y iff y is an instance of Information Bearing Entity and x is an instance of Time Zone Identifier, such that x designates the spatial region associated with the time zone mentioned in y.
disconnected with
An immaterial entity im1 is disconnected with some immaterial entity im2 iff there does not exist some immaterial entity im3 that is common to both im1 and im2.
has son
has grandmother
is input of
x is_input_of y iff x is an instance of Continuant and y is an instance of Process, such that the presence of x at the beginning of y is a necessary condition for the start of y.
is child of
Comment is_paternal_first_cousin_of is not a symmetric relationship as is is_first_cousin_of
is paternal first cousin of
Person A is paternal first cousin of Person B iff Person B has father F and F has sibling P and P is parent of Person A.
has sender
y has_sender x iff x is an instance of Agent and y is an instance of Act Of Communication, such that x is the initiator and encoder of the InformationContentEntity intended for communication in y.
is site of
x is_site_of y iff x is an instance of Site and y is an instance of Process, such that y occurs in x.
is organizational context of
x is_organizational_context_of y iff x is an instance of an Organization and y is an instance of a Role and z is an instance of a Person, such that z's affiliation with x is a prerequisite for z bearing y, or x ascribes y to the bearer of y.
interval is after
A TemporalInterval INT2 is after some TemporalInterval INT1 iff there exists TemporalInstants inst2, inst1 such that inst2 is the starting instant of INT2 and inst1 is the ending instant of INT1 and inst2 is after inst1.
is inside instant of
For Temporal Instant t1 and Temporal Interval t2, t1 is inside instant of t2 if and only if there are Temporal Instants t3 and t4 non-identical to t1 and part of t2 such that t3 is before t1 and t4 is after t1.
is father in-law of
is grandparent of
is sister of
accessory in
y is_accessory_in x iff x is an instance of Process and y is an instance of Agent, such that y assists another agent in the commission of x, and y was not located at the location of x when x occurred, and y was not an agent_in x.
is mother in-law of
has daughter in law
has spatial part
y has_spatial_part x iff x, y, z, and q are instances of Immaterial Entity, such that for any z connected with x, z is also connected with y, and q is connected with y but not connected with x.
has niece
is part of process
x is_part_of_process y iff x and y are instances of Process, such that x occurs during the temporal interval of y, and x either provides an input to y or receives an output of y.
is daughter of
is delimited by
An instance of Organization o1 is_delimited_by some Delimiting Domain dd1 iff dd1 is the area within which o1 can legally operate.
is ancestor of
is material of
An object m is material of an object o when m is the material of which o consists and that material does not undergo a change of kind during the creation of o
interval disjoint
A Temporal Interval INT1 is disjoint with a Temporal Interval INT2 iff INT1 is before or meets INT2 OR INT2 is before or meets INT1. In other words, INT1 and INT2 are disjoint iff INT1 and INT2 do not overlap, contain, or equal one another.
uses measurement unit
y uses_measurement_unit x iff y is an instance of Information Bearing Entity and x is an instance of Measurement Unit, such that x describes the magnitude of measured physical quantity mentioned in y.
delimits
An instance of Delimiting Domain dd1 delimits some Organization o1 iff dd1 is the area within which o1 can legally operate.
has familial relationship to
A relationship between persons by virtue of ancestry or legal union.
is interest of
is daughter in-law of
is a nominal measurement of
x is_a_nominal_measurement_of y iff x is an instance of Information Content Entity and y is an instance of Entity, such that x classifies y relative to some set of shared, possibly arbitrary, characteristics.
interval during
A Temporal Interval INT1 is during some Temporal Interval INT2 iff there exist Temporal Instants inst1, inst2, inst3, and inst4 such that inst1 is the starting instant of INT1, inst2 is the ending instant of INT1, inst3 is the starting instant of INT2, inst4 is the ending instant of INT2, inst3 is before inst1, and inst2 is before inst4.
interval overlapped by
A Temporal Interval INT2 is overlapped by some Temporal Interval INT1 iff there exist Temporal Instants inst1, inst2, inst3, inst4 such that inst1 is the starting instant of INT1, inst2 is the ending instant of INT1, inst3 is the starting instant of INT2, inst4 is the ending instant of INT2, inst1 is before inst3, inst3 is before inst2, and inst2 is before inst4.
has wife
is step-brother of
represented by
y represented_by x iff x is an instance of Information Content Entity, and y is an instance of Entity, and z is carrier of x, such that x is about y in virtue of there existing an isomorphism between characteristics of z and y.
is temporal region of
t is temporal region of p iff p occupies temporal region t.
Leaving this is in ERO for now since BFO2020 has no inverse of occupies-temporal-region yet.
interval started by
A Temporal Interval INT2 is started by some Temporal Interval INT1 iff there exist Temporal Instants inst1, inst2, and inst3 such that inst1 is the starting instant of both INT1 and INT2, inst2 is the ending instant of INT1, inst3 is the ending instant of INT2 and inst2 is before inst3.
is grandfather of
is a interval measurement of
x is_a_interval_measurement_of y iff x is an instance of Information Content Entity and y is an instance of Entity, such that x describes some attribute of y relative to a scale which has uniform intervals but has a zero value that does not correspond to an absence of the attribute being measured.
a measurement of air temperature on the Celsius scale.
is mention of
x is_mention_of y iff x is an instance Information Bearing Entity and y is an instance Entity, such that x is used as a reference to y.
designated by
x designated_by y iff y is an instance of Information Content Entity and x is an instance of Entity, such that given some context, y uniquely distinguishes x from other entities.
capability of aggregate
x capability_of_aggregate y iff y is an instance of Object Aggregate and x is an instance of Agent Capability, such that x inheres in aggregate y.
is son in-law of
is grandmother of
is brother of
condition described by
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.
has mother in law
is affected by
x is_affected_by y iff x is an instance of Continuant and y is an instance of Process, and y influences x in some manner, most often by producing a change in x.
is wife of
disrupts
A relation where one process disrupts another process from occurring as it would have.
To lower the grade of a process is to lower the quality of a process according to some standard, for example when realizing a capability or a function.
A process can disrupt another process from occurring as it would have by 1) preventing a disposition or role from being realized by that process, 2) lowering the grade of the process, or 3) stopping the process from continuing to occur.
capability of
x capability_of y iff y is an instance of Agent and x is an instance of Agent Capability, such that x inheres in y.
has step brother
has brother in law
is paternal grandfather of
instant is after
A temporal instant t2 (a instance of a zero-dimensional temporal region) is after another temporal instant t1 iff there exists some instance of a temporal interval ti1 such that t1 is the starting instant of ti1 and t2 is the ending instant of ti1.
'instant is after' is a primitive relationship. Informally, a temporal instant t2 is after some temporal instant t1 if and only if t1 precedes t2.
has paternal first cousin
accomplice in
An agent a1 is accomplice_in some Processual Entity p1 iff a1 assists in the commission of p1, is located at the location of p1, but is not agent_in p1.
interval meets
A Temporal Interval INT1 meets some Temporal Interval INT2 iff there exists some Temporal Instant inst1 such that inst1 is the ending instant of INT1 and inst1 is the starting instant of INT2.
is maternal grandmother of
aggregate has capability
x aggregate_has_capability y iff x is an instance of Object Aggregate and y is an instance of Agent Capability, such that x is aggregate bearer of y.
language used in
x language_used_by y iff y is an instance of Information Bearing Entity and x is an instance of Language, such that the literal value of y is a string that is encoded according to the syntax of x.
is geospatial coordinate reference system of
x is_geospatial_coordinate_reference_system_of y iff y is an instance of Information Bearing Entity and x is an instance of Geospatial Coordinate Reference System, such that x describes the set of standards mentioned in y.
aggregate has role
x aggregate_has_role y iff x is an instance of Object Aggregate and y is an instance of Role, such that x aggregate_bearer_of y.
is sibling of
is maternal grandfather of
is measured by
y is_measured_by x iff x is an instance of Information Content Entity and y is an instance of Entity, such that x describes some attribute of y relative to some scale or classification scheme.
is half-brother of
Comment is_maternal_first_cousin_of is not a symmetric relationship as is is_first_cousin_of
is maternal first cousin of
Person A is maternal first cousin of Person B iff Person B has mother M and M has sibling P and P is parent of Person A.
aggregate has quality
x aggregate_has_quality y iff x is an instance of Object Aggregate and y is an instance of Quality, such that x aggregate_bearer_of y.
uses time zone identifier
x uses_time_zone_identifier y iff x is an instance of Information Bearing Entity and y is an instance of Time Zone Identifier, such that y designates the spatial region associated with the time zone mentioned in x.
has tangential part
x has_tangential_part y iff x, y, and z are instances of Immaterial Entity, and x has_spatial_part y, such that z externally connects with both x and y.
permits
x permits y at t iff: x is an instance of Process Regulation at time t, and y is an instance of Process at time t, and x prescribes that y may occur.
is paternal grandmother of
uses reference system
y uses_reference_system x iff y is an instance of Information Bearing Entity and x is an instance of Reference System, such that x describes the set of standards mentioned in y.
uses geospatial coordinate reference system
y uses_geospatial_coordinate_reference_system x iff y is an instance of Information Bearing Entity and x is an instance of Geospatial Coordinate Reference System, such that x describes the set of standards mentioned in y.
is measured by nominal
y is_measured_by_nominal x iff x is an instance of Information Content Entity and y is an instance of Entity, such that x classifies y relative to some set of shared, possibly arbitrary, characteristics.
interval met by
A Temporal Interval INT2 is met by some Temporal Interval INT1 iff there exists some Temporal Instant inst1 such that inst1 is the starting instant of INT2 and inst1 is the ending instant of INT1.
designates
x designates y iff x is an instance of an Information Content Entity, and y is an instance of an Entity, such that given some context, x uniquely distinguishes y from other entities.
a URL designates the location of a Web Page on the internet
a vehicle identification number designates some vehicle
Given a stronger temporal interpretation, this property may be functional. For more info please refer to https://github.com/BFO-ontology/BFO-2020/tree/master/src/owl/temporal%20extensions.
described by
x described_by y iff y is an instance of Information Content Entity, and x is an instance of Entity, such that y is about the characteristics by which y can be recognized or visualized.
occurs at
x occurs_at y iff x is an instance of Process and y is an instance of Site, such that x occurs in y.
is mentioned by
y is_mention_by x iff x is an instance Information Bearing Entity and y is an instance Entity, such that x is used as a reference to y.
prescribed by
x prescribed_by y iff y is an instance of Information Content Entity and x is an instance of Entity, such that y serves as a rule or guide for x if x is an Occurrent, or y serves as a model for x if x is a Continuant.
has input
y has_input x iff x is an instance of Continuant and y is an instance of Process, such that the presence of x at the beginning of y is a necessary condition for the start of y.
has recipient
x has_recipient y iff y is an instance of Agent and x is an instance of Act Of Communication, such that y is the recipient and decoder of the InformationContentEntity intended for communication in x.
interval starts
A Temporal Interval INT1 starts some Temporal Interval INT2 iff there exist Temporal Instants inst1, inst2, and inst3 such that inst1 is the starting instant of both INT1 and INT2, inst2 is the ending instant of INT1, inst3 is the ending instant of INT2 and inst2 is before inst3.
interval contains
A Temporal Interval INT2 contains some Temporal Interval INT1 iff there exist Temporal Instants inst1, inst2, inst3, and inst4 such that inst1 is the starting instant of INT1, inst2 is the ending instant of INT1, inst3 is the starting instant of INT2, inst4 is the ending instant of INT2, inst3 is before or identical to inst1, and inst2 is before or identical to inst4, but it is not the case that both inst3 is identical to inst1 and inst2 is identical to inst4.
is used by
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.
is paternal uncle of
has half brother
is predecessor of
A continuant c1 is a predecessor of some continuant c2 iff there is some process p1 and c1 is an input to p1 and c2 is an output of p1.
More informally, c1 is a predecessor of c2 iff c1 has been followed or replaced by c2.
is maternal uncle of
is second cousin of
externally connects with
An immaterial entity im1 externally connects with some immaterial entity im2 iff im1 connects with im2 and im1 does not overlap with im2.
is niece of
process starts
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.
A process x starts another process y when x causes y while x is still occurring.
has maternal first cousin
has father in law
is object of
If p is a process and c is a continuant, then c is object of p if and only if the c is part of the projected state that the agent intends to achieve by performing p.
has paternal grandmother
Isomorphism between the carrier of x and the represented entity can be via a direct similarity relation, e.g., grooves in a vinyl record corresponding to sound waves, or linguistic convention, e.g., a court stenographer's transcription of spoken words, as well as others, such as encoding processes for images.
represents
x represents y iff x is an instance of Information Content Entity, y is an instance of Entity, and z is carrier of x, such that x is about y in virtue of there existing an isomorphism between characteristics of z and y.
The relationship that is being defined here is that between the content of a photographic image and its object, between the content of a video and its objects and events, between the content of an audio recording and the sounds or events generating those sounds, or between the content of a written transcript and the verbal event that it transcribes.
is affiliated with
x is_affiliated_with y iff x and y are instances of Agent, such that they have any kind of social or business relationship.
interval is before
A TemporalInterval INT1 is before some TemporalInterval INT2 iff there exists TemporalInstants inst1, inst2 such that inst1 is the ending instant of INT1 and inst2 is the starting instant of INT2 and inst1 is before inst2.
is maternal aunt of
prescribes
x prescribes y iff x is an instance of Information Content Entity and y is an instance of Entity, such that x serves as a rule or guide for y if y an Occurrent, or x serves as a model for y if y is a Continuant.
A blueprint prescribes some artifact or facility by being a model for it.
A professional code of conduct prescribes some realizations of a profession (role) by giving rules for how the bearer should act in those realizations.
An operations plan prescribes an operation by enumerating the tasks that need to be performed in order to achieve the objectives of the operation.
supervises
A person p1 supervises a person p2 by virtue of p1 directing, managing, or overseeing p2.
in the sense used here, spatial part of is elsewhere referred to as proper spatial part of
spatial part of
x spatial_part_of y iff x, y, z, and q are instances of Immaterial Entity, such that for any z connected with x, z is also connected with y, and q is connected with y but not connected with x.
is grandchild of
has father
quality of aggregate
x quality_of_aggregate y iff y is an instance of Object Aggregate and x is an instance of Quality, and x inheres_in_aggregate y.
is half sister of
has accessory
x has_accessory y iff x is an instance of Process and y is an instance of Agent, such that y assists another agent in the commission of x, and y was not located at the location of x when x occurred, and y was not an agent_in x.
is third cousin of
has subordinate role
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.
is brother-in-law of
has parent
has capability
x has_capability y iff x is an instance of Agent and y is an instance of Agent Capability, such that x bearer of y.
is aunt of
aggregate has disposition
x aggregate_has_disposition y iff x is an instance of Object Aggregate and y is an instance of Disposition, such that x aggregate_bearer_of y.
is husband of
has maternal aunt
inhibits
x inhibits y iff x and y are non-identical Processes, d is a Decrease of Realizable Entity, and x is_cause_of d, and r is a Realizable Entity, and d has_participant r, and r realized_in y.
has maternal grandmother
is measurement unit of
x is_measurement_unit_of y iff y is an instance of Information Bearing Entity and x is an instance of Measurement Unit, such that x describes the magnitude of measured physical quantity mentioned in y.
process started by
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.
A process x is started by another process y when y causes x while y is still occurring.
is measured by ordinal
y is_measured_by_ordinal x iff x is an instance of Information Content Entity and y is an instance of Entity, such that x describes some attribute of y relative to a scale ordered by rank.
is measured by interval
y is_measured_by_interval x iff x is an instance of Information Content Entity and y is an instance of Entity, such that x describes some attribute of y relative to a scale which has uniform intervals but has a zero value that does not correspond to an absence of the attribute being measured.
is measured by ratio
y is_measured_by_ratio x iff x is an instance of Information Content Entity and y is an instance of Entity, such that x describes some attribute of y relative to a scale having equal unit values and a zero value that corresponds to the absence of the attribute being measured.
This object property, as well as all of its children are typified as functional properties. This means that for instances x, y, and z if x is a measurement of y and x is a measurement of z, then y = z.
is a measurement of
x is_a_measurement_of y iff x is an instance of Information Content Entity and y is an instance of Entity, such that x describes some attribute of y relative to some scale or classification scheme.
is nephew of
is descendent of
has nephew
inhibited by
y inhibited_by x iff x and y are non-identical Processes, d is a Decrease of Realizable Entity, and x is_cause_of d, and r is a Realizable Entity, and d has_participant r, and r realized_in y.
interval contained by
A Temporal Interval INT1 is contained by some Temporal Interval INT2 iff there exist Temporal Instants inst1, inst2, inst3, and inst4 such that inst1 is the starting instant of INT1, inst2 is the ending instant of INT1, inst3 is the starting instant of INT2, inst4 is the ending instant of INT2, inst3 is before or identical to inst1, inst2 is before or identical to inst4, and it is not the case that both inst3 is identical to inst1 and inst2 is identical to inst4.
has paternal grandfather
has maternal grandfather
requires
x requires y at t iff: x is an instance of Process Regulation at time t, and y is an instance of Process at time t, and x prescribes that some y must occur.
is half-sibling of
uses language
x uses_language y iff x is an instance of an Information Bearing Entity and y is an instance of a Language such that the literal value of x is a string that is encoded according to the syntax of y.
has affiliate
receives
x receives y iff x is an instance of Agent and y is an instance of Act Of Communication, such that x is the recipient and decoder of the InformationContentEntity intended for communication in y.
is step-sister of
describes condition
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.
has grandson
It is possible that this relation should be a functional property, that is for all x, y, z if x describes y and x describes z then y = z. For example, if a financial report x describes the quarterly results of a company y and that same financial report describes the quarterly results of a company z, then it should be inferred that companies y and z are the same. We refrained from classifying the relation as a functional property on the concern that descriptions are multifaceted and so consequently it may be that the same report would contain descriptions of multiple entities.
describes
x describes y iff x is an instance of Information Content Entity, and y is an instance of Entity, such that x is about the characteristics by which y can be recognized or visualized.
the content of a newspaper article describes some current event
the content of a visitor's log describes some facility visit
the content of an accident report describes some accident
is a ratio measurement of
x is_a_ratio_measurement_of y iff x is an instance of Information Content Entity and y is an instance of Entity, such that x describes some attribute of y relative to a scale having equal unit values and a zero value that corresponds to the absence of the attribute being measured.
has interest in
A relation between an entity and some process where the entity has an interest in that process.
This term is meant to be weakly normative. The only sense in which the process is of positive normative value is that it's prescribed by the entity, or historically of evolutionary benefit to the entity's ancestors, or facilitates a process the entity has an interest in for the prior two reasons. The process an entity has an interest could in many or all ways be harmful to the entity.
There are four conditions in which an entity has an interest in some process. 1) Biological Condition: If a part (including improper part) of an organism has a function, then that organism has an interest in the realization of that function. 2) Artifactual Condition: If a part (including improper part) of an artifact has a function, then some agent or group of agents, at some time, has an interest in the realization of that function. 3) Prescription Condition: If an agent or group of agents has a plan, then it has an interest in the realization of all the processes and process-combinations prescribed by that plan. 4) Facilitation Condition: If (a) x has an interest in the realization of a disposition y, and (b) the realization of a disposition z facilitates the realization of disposition y, then (c) x has an interest in the realization of disposition z, and by 'facilitates' we mean that the occurrence of a process w, which realizes realization of z is either (1) required for y, to realize or (2) would contribute positively to the grade of, y's realization.
is father of
has output
y has_output x iff x is an instance of Continuant and y is an instance of Process, such that the presence of x at the end of y is a necessary condition for the completion of y.
has daughter
is uncle of
has nontangential part
x has_nontangential_part y iff x and y are instances of Immaterial Entity, and x has_spatial_part y, such that there does not exist another instance of an Immaterial Entity which externally connects with both x and y.
instant is before
A temporal instant t1 (a instance of a zero-dimensional temporal region) is before another temporal instant t2 iff there exists some instance of a temporal interval ti1 such that t1 is the starting instant of ti1 and t2 is the ending instant of ti1.
'instant is before' is a primitive relationship. Informally, a temporal instant t1 is before some temporal instant t2 if and only if t1 precedes t2.
is made of
An object o is made of an object m when m is the material that o consists of and that material does not undergo a change of kind during the creation of o
has organizational context
x has_organizational_context y iff y is an instance of an Organization and x is an instance of a Role and z is an instance of a Person, such that z's affiliation with y is a prerequisite for z bearing x or y ascribes x to the bearer of x.
sends
x sends y iff x is an instance of Agent and y is an instance of Act Of Communication, such that x is the initiator and encoder of the InformationContentEntity intended for communication in y.
is paternal aunt of
is parent of
is step-sibling of
is reference system of
x is_reference_system_of y iff y is an instance of Information Bearing Entity and x is an instance of Reference System, such that x describes the set of standards mentioned in y.
is permitted by
y is_permitted_by x at t iff: x is an instance of Process Regulation at time t, and y is an instance of Process at time t, and x prescribes that y may occur.
as WKT
A Data Property that has as its range a string formated according to the Well-known text standardization for geometric objects.
Altitude values typically use kilometers as the Unit of Measurement.
has altitude value
This data property can be used along with has_latitude_value and has_longitude_value to connect three-dimensional spatial data to a single Information Bearing Entity to specify the location of an entity in a Geospatial Region.
has longitude value
A Data Property that has as its range the longitude value from some Geospatial Location coordinates set expressed in decimal degrees.
has text value
A data property that has as its range a string value.
has latitude value
A Data Property that has as its range the latitude value from some Geospatial Location coordinates set expressed in decimal degrees.
has datetime value
A data property that has as its value a datetime value.
has URI value
A data property that has as its range a URI value.
has decimal value
A data property that has as its range a decimal value.
has double value
A data property that has as its range a double value.
has date value
A data property that has as its range a date value.
has boolean value
A data property that has as its range a boolean value.
has integer value
A data property that has as its range an integer value.
entity
(Elucidation) An entity is anything that exists or has existed or will exist
Julius Caesar; the Second World War; your body mass index; Verdi's Requiem
continuant
(Elucidation) A continuant is an entity that persists, endures, or continues to exist through time while maintaining its identity
A human being; a tennis ball; a cave; a region of space; someone's temperature
occurrent
(Elucidation) An occurrent is an entity that unfolds itself in time or it is the start or end of such an entity or it is a temporal or spatiotemporal region
As for process, history, process boundary, spatiotemporal region, zero-dimensional temporal region, one-dimensional temporal region, temporal interval, temporal instant.
independent continuant
b is an independent continuant =Def b is a continuant & there is no c such that b specifically depends on c or b generically depends on c
An atom; a molecule; an organism; a heart; a chair; the bottom right portion of a human torso; a leg; the interior of your mouth; a spatial region; an orchestra
spatial region
(Elucidation) A spatial region is a continuant entity that is a continuant part of the spatial projection of a portion of spacetime at a given time
As for zero-dimensional spatial region, one-dimensional spatial region, two-dimensional spatial region, three-dimensional spatial region
temporal region
(Elucidation) A temporal region is an occurrent over which processes can unfold
As for zero-dimensional temporal region and one-dimensional temporal region
two-dimensional spatial region
(Elucidation) A two-dimensional spatial region is a spatial region that is a whole consisting of a surface together with zero or more surfaces which may have spatial regions of lower dimension as parts
The surface of a sphere-shaped part of space; an infinitely thin plane in space
spatiotemporal region
(Elucidation) A spatiotemporal region is an occurrent that is an occurrent part of spacetime
The spatiotemporal region occupied by the development of a cancer tumour; the spatiotemporal region occupied by an orbiting satellite
'Spacetime' here refers to the maximal instance of the universal spatiotemporal region.
process
event
(Elucidation) p is a process means p is an occurrent that has some temporal proper part and for some time t, p has some material entity as participant
An act of selling; the life of an organism; a process of sleeping; a process of cell-division; a beating of the heart; a process of meiosis; the taxiing of an aircraft; the programming of a computer
disposition
internally-grounded realizable entity
(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
An atom of element X has the disposition to decay to an atom of element Y; the cell wall is disposed to transport cellular material through endocytosis and exocytosis; certain people have a predisposition to colon cancer; children are innately disposed to categorize objects in certain ways
realizable entity
(Elucidation) A realizable entity is a specifically dependent continuant that inheres in some independent continuant which is not a spatial region & which is of a type some instances of which are realized in processes of a correlated type
The role of being a doctor; the role of this boundary to delineate where Utah and Colorado meet; the function of your reproductive organs; the disposition of your blood to coagulate; the disposition of this piece of metal to conduct electricity
zero-dimensional spatial region
(Elucidation) A zero-dimensional spatial region is one or a collection of more than one spatially disjoint points in space
The spatial region occupied at some time instant by the North Pole
quality
(Elucidation) A quality is a specifically dependent continuant that, in contrast to roles and dispositions, does not require any further process in order to be realized
The colour of a tomato; the ambient temperature of this portion of air; the length of the circumference of your waist; the shape of your nose; the shape of your nostril; the mass of this piece of gold
specifically dependent continuant
b is a specifically dependent continuant =Def b is a continuant & there is some independent continuant c which is not a spatial region & which is such that b specifically depends on c
(with multiple bearers) John's love for Mary; the ownership relation between John and this statue; the relation of authority between John and his subordinates
(with one bearer) The mass of this tomato; the pink colour of a medium rare piece of grilled filet mignon at its centre; the smell of this portion of mozzarella; the disposition of this fish to decay; the role of being a doctor; the function of this heart to pump blood; the shape of this hole
role
externally-grounded realizable entity
(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
The priest role; the student role; the role of subject in a clinical trial; the role of a stone in marking a property boundary; the role of a boundary to demarcate two neighbouring administrative territories; the role of a building in serving as a military target
fiat object part
(Elucidation) A fiat object part b is a material entity & such that if b exists then it is continuant part of some object c & demarcated from the remainder of c by one or more fiat surfaces
The upper and lower lobes of the left lung; the dorsal and ventral surfaces of the body; the Western hemisphere of the Earth; the FMA:regional parts of an intact human body
one-dimensional spatial region
(Elucidation) A one-dimensional spatial region is a whole consisting of a line together with zero or more lines which may have points as parts
An edge of a cube-shaped portion of space; a line connecting two points; two parallel lines extended in space
object aggregate
(Elucidation) An object aggregate is a material entity consisting exactly of a plurality (≥1) of objects as member parts which together form a unit
The aggregate of the musicians in a symphony orchestra and their instruments; the aggregate of bearings in a constant velocity axle joint; the nitrogen atoms in the atmosphere; a collection of cells in a blood biobank
'Exactly' means that there are no parts of the object aggregate other than its member parts.
The unit can, at certain times, consist of exactly one object, for example, when a wolf litter loses all but one of its pups, but it must at some time have a plurality of member parts.
three-dimensional spatial region
(Elucidation) A three-dimensional spatial region is a whole consisting of a spatial volume together with zero or more spatial volumes which may have spatial regions of lower dimension as parts
A cube-shaped region of space; a sphere-shaped region of space; the region of space occupied by all and only the planets in the solar system at some point in time
site
(Elucidation) A site is a three-dimensional immaterial entity whose boundaries either (partially or wholly) coincide with the boundaries of one or more material entities or have locations determined in relation to some material entity
A hole in a portion of cheese; a rabbit hole; the Grand Canyon; the Piazza San Marco; the kangaroo-joey-containing hole of a kangaroo pouch; your left nostril (a fiat part - the opening - of your left nasal cavity); the lumen of your gut; the hold of a ship; the interior of the trunk of your car; hole in an engineered floor joist
object
(Elucidation) An object is a material entity which manifests causal unity & is of a type instances of which are maximal relative to the sort of causal unity manifested
An organism; a fish tank; a planet; a laptop; a valve; a block of marble; an ice cube
A description of three primary sorts of causal unity is provided in Basic Formal Ontology 2.0. Specification and User Guide
generically dependent continuant
g-dependent continuant
(Elucidation) A generically dependent continuant is an entity that exists in virtue of the fact that there is at least one of what may be multiple copies which is the content or the pattern that multiple copies would share
The pdf file on your laptop; the pdf file that is a copy thereof on my laptop; the sequence of this protein molecule; the sequence that is a copy thereof in that protein molecule; the content that is shared by a string of dots and dashes written on a page and the transmitted Morse code signal; the content of a sentence; an engineering blueprint
function
(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
The function of a hammer to drive in nails; the function of a heart pacemaker to regulate the beating of a heart through electricity
process boundary
p is a process boundary =Def p is a temporal part of a process & p has no proper temporal parts
The boundary between the 2nd and 3rd year of your life
one-dimensional temporal region
(Elucidation) A one-dimensional temporal region is a temporal region that is a whole that has a temporal interval and zero or more temporal intervals and temporal instants as parts
The temporal region during which a process occurs
material entity
(Elucidation) A material entity is an independent continuant has some portion of matter as continuant part
A human being; the undetached arm of a human being; an aggregate of human beings
continuant fiat boundary
(Elucidation) A continuant fiat boundary b is an immaterial entity that is of zero, one or two dimensions & such that there is no time t when b has a spatial region as continuant part & whose location is determined in relation to some material entity
As for fiat point, fiat line, fiat surface
immaterial entity
b is an immaterial entity =Def b is an independent continuant which is such that there is no time t when it has a material entity as continuant part
As for fiat point, fiat line, fiat surface, site
fiat line
(Elucidation) A fiat line is a one-dimensional continuant fiat boundary that is continuous
The Equator; all geopolitical boundaries; all lines of latitude and longitude; the median sulcus of your tongue; the line separating the outer surface of the mucosa of the lower lip from the outer surface of the skin of the chin
Process Profile
An occurrent that is an occurrent part of some process by virtue of the rate, or pattern, or amplitude of change in an attribute of one or more participants of said process.
On a somewhat higher level of complexity are what we shall call rate process profiles, which are the targets of selective abstraction focused not on determinate quality magnitudes plotted over time, but rather on certain ratios between these magnitudes and elapsed times. A speed process profile, for example, is represented by a graph plotting against time the ratio of distance covered per unit of time. Since rates may change, and since such changes, too, may have rates of change, we have to deal here with a hierarchy of process profile universals at successive levels; One important sub-family of rate process profiles is illustrated by the beat or frequency profiles of cyclical processes, illustrated by the 60 beats per minute beating process of John’s heart, or the 120 beats per minute drumming process involved in one of John’s performances in a rock band, and so on. Each such process includes what we shall call a beat process profile instance as part, a subtype of rate process profile in which the salient ratio is not distance covered but rather number of beat cycles per unit of time. Each beat process profile instance instantiates the determinable universal beat process profile. But it also instantiates multiple more specialized universals at lower levels of generality, selected from rate process profilebeat process profileregular beat process profile3 bpm beat process profile4 bpm beat process profileirregular beat process profileincreasing beat process profileand so on.In the case of a regular beat process profile, a rate can be assigned in the simplest possible fashion by dividing the number of cycles by the length of the temporal region occupied by the beating process profile as a whole. Irregular process profiles of this sort, for example as identified in the clinic, or in the readings on an aircraft instrument panel, are often of diagnostic significance.; The simplest type of process profiles are what we shall call ‘quality process profiles’, which are the process profiles which serve as the foci of the sort of selective abstraction that is involved when measurements are made of changes in single qualities, as illustrated, for example, by process profiles of mass, temperature, aortic pressure, and so on.
b process_profile_of c holds when b proper_occurrent_part_of c& there is some proper_occurrent_part d of c which has no parts in common with b & is mutually dependent on b& is such that b, c and d occupy the same temporal region (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [094-005])
relational quality
b is a relational quality =Def b is a quality & there exists c and d such that c and d are not identical & b specifically depends on c & b specifically depends on d
A marriage bond; an instance of love; an obligation between one person and another
fiat surface
(Elucidation) A fiat surface is a two-dimensional continuant fiat boundary that is self-connected
The surface of the Earth; the plane separating the smoking from the non-smoking zone in a restaurant
fiat point
(Elucidation) A fiat point is a zero-dimensional continuant fiat boundary that consists of a single point
The geographic North Pole; the quadripoint where the boundaries of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona meet; the point of origin of some spatial coordinate system
zero-dimensional temporal region
(Elucidation) A zero-dimensional temporal region is a temporal region that is a whole consisting of one or more separated temporal instants as parts
A temporal region that is occupied by a process boundary; the moment at which a finger is detached in an industrial accident
history
(Elucidation) A history is a process that is the sum of the totality of processes taking place in the spatiotemporal region occupied by the material part of a material entity
The life of an organism from the beginning to the end of its existence
temporal interval
(Elucidation) A temporal interval is a one-dimensional temporal region that is continuous, thus without gaps or breaks
The year 2018.
A one-dimensional temporal region can include as parts not only temporal intervals but also temporal instants separated from other parts by gaps.
temporal instant
(Elucidation) A temporal instant is a zero-dimensional temporal region that has no proper temporal part
The millennium
Deflecting Prism
A Prism designed to deflect a beam of light entering the Prism by a fixed angle.
Cooling Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in a process in which the thermal energy of a system decreases.
Designative Name
Name
A Designative Information Content Entity that consists of a string of characters that designates an entity within a specified cultural or social namespace and which is typically a word or phrase in a natural language that has an accepted cultural or social significance.
Change
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.
Act
A Process in which at least one Agent plays a causative role.
Upper Midrange Frequency
A Sonic Frequency that is between 2 and 4 kHz.
Natural Process
A Process existing in or produced by nature; rather than by the intent of human beings.
Sound Frequency
A Frequency that is the rate of Oscillations per second of a Sound Wave.
Mass Density
Density
A Quality that inheres in a bearer in virtue of that bearer's mass per unit volume.
Incorporated Organization
Corporation
An Organization formed by an Act of Incorporation that consists of an association of individuals, created by law or under authority of law, having a continuous existence independent of the existences of its members and owners, and having powers and liabilities distinct from those of its members and owners.
Nominal Stasis
Nominal
A Stasis of Specifically Dependent Continuant in which some Independent Continuant bears a Quality or Realizable Entity that has a level of intensity or functionality that falls within the designed, expected, or acceptable range such that the Independent Continuant is of normal value, usefulness, or functionality.
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/nominal (Definition 6)
Propulsion Control System
A Control System that consists of control devices, displays, indicators, or modules designed to control a Propulsion System.
Gain of Generically Dependent Continuant
A Gain of Dependent Continuant wherein some Independent Continuant becomes the carrier of some Generically Dependent Continuant.
A Person forms a Plan, A Person is initiated into a Religion, A photgraphic image is produced.
Aztec Code
A Two-Dimensional Barcode that is used by the transportation industry to scan tickets.
Shotgun
A Long Gun that fires packets of shot, a single slug, a sabot, or a specialty round (such as tear gas, bolo shell, or a breaching round) over shorter ranges than that of Rifles and with less accuracy.
Triangular Waveform
A Waveform that is characterized by a triangular shape due to the continuous linear zig-zag transitions between minimum and maximum Amplitudes of the Wave Cycle.
Minor Axis
A One-Dimensional Spatial Region that is the longest line segment perpendicular to the Major Axis that connects two points on the edge of an Ellipse.
Title Document
A Legal Instrument that is designed as evidence of ownership.
Power Inverting Artifact Function
A Current Conversion Artifact Function that is realized by processes in which some Artifact is used to convert direct current (DC) to alternating current (AC).
Container
A Material Artifact that is designed to contain (wholly or partially) some material entity.
Sensor Platform
A Material Artifact that is designed to support, and in some cases transport, a Sensor during its deployment and functioning.
Radio Communication Reception Artifact Function
A Communication Reception Artifact Function that is realized during events in which an Artifact receives information transmitted from another Artifact, where the transmission of information occurs using radio waves.
Sensor Deployment Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that inheres in Artifacts that are designed to support or convey one or more Sensors while the Sensors are realizing their own Artifact Functions.
Act of Advising
An Act of Directive Communication performed by providing advice or counsel to another agent.
Electronic Stock
Stock that consists of Bytes.
Hair Color
A Quality inhering in a portion of Hair by virtue of its color.
Mailing
Act of Mailing
An Act of Communication by Media in which information and tangible objects, usually written documents, are delivered to destinations around the world.
Dispersive Prism
A Prism designed to break up a beam of light entering the Prism into its constituent spectral colors by leveraging the refractive index of light based on its Frequency.
Median Point Estimate Information Content Entity
Median
A Point Estimate Information Content Entity that is a measurement of a set of values and is equal to either the middle value or the average of the two values which separate the set into two equally populated upper and lower sets.
Nuclear Reactor
A Power Source that is designed to initiate and control a self-sustained nuclear chain reaction to produce power in the form of heat, which can be transferred to a working fluid for further conversion to mechanical or electrical energy.
Atmospheric Feature
A Geographic Feature that is part of the atmosphere (including the atmosphere itself as a non-proper part) having a relatively stable lifecycle and which has a location that can be distinguished from the surrounding portion of the atmosphere.
Church
A Religious Facility that is designed for Christian worship and prayer.
Decrease of Role
A Decrease of Realizable Entity in which some Independent Continuant has a decrease of some Role that it bears.
Conveyance Artifact Function
A Motion Artifact Function that is realized in a process in which the bearer of the function conveys entities from one location to another.
Soft X-ray Frequency
An X-Ray Frequency that is between 30 petahertz and 3 exahertz.
Waste Management Artifact Function
A Service Artifact Function that is realized in processes of collecting transporting processing recycling or disposing and monitoring of waste materials.
Act of Observation
A Planned Act of acquiring information from a source via the use of one or more senses.
System Role
A Role that inheres in an entity in virtue of its parts or elements being arranged in such a way that they together exhibit behavior or meaning that they do not exhibit individually.
Portion of Solid Fuel
A Portion of Fuel that is stored in a solid state.
Grocery Store
A Commercial Facility that is designed to sell food.
Hostel
A Residential Facility that is designed to temporarily lodge guests in a sociable environment for relatively low costs.
Semicircular
A Shape quality inhering in a bearer in virtue of the bearer having the shape of half a circle.
Portion of Solid Propellant
A Portion of Propellant that is stored in a solid state.
Eye Color
A Quality inhering in an Eye by virtue of the color of the Eye's Iris.
Petroleum Depot
A Storage Facility that is designed to store petroleum, oil, or lubricants.
Province
A First-Order Administrative Region that is part of a Country and delimits the authority of a magistrate who holds constitutionally-defined administrative jurisdiction over the defined geographic territory that bounds the Province.
Flow Control Valves are often more complex than a simple Valve and typically include an Actuator that is capable of automatically adjusting the state of the valve in response to signals from a connected Sensor or Controller.
Flow Control Valve
A Valve that is designed to regulate the flow or Pressure of a fluid.
Random Wire Antenna
A Wire Antenna that consists of a long wire suspended above the ground with a length that does not bear a relation to the wavelength of the radio waves used and which is typically used as a receiving antenna on the long, medium, and short wave bands.
Banknote
A Portion of Cash that consists of a portable slips of paper or fabric designed to bear some specified Financial Value.
Very High Frequency Communication Instrument
A Radio Communication Instrument that is designed to participate in some process that has process part some Very High Frequency.
An Act of Construction typically involves the production of only one or a limited number of goods, such as in the construction of an airport or a community of condominiums.
Act of Construction
An Act of Artifact Processing wherein Artifacts are built on site as prescribed by some contract.
Religious Facility
A Facility that is designed for worship and prayer.
Ground Motor Vehicle
A Ground Vehicle that is designed to receive its motive power from an Engine and is not designed to travel on rails.
Stirling Engine
An External Combusion Engine that is designed to compress and expand some working fluid at different temperatures, such that there is a net conversion of heat energy to mechanical work.
Healthcare Facility
A Facility that is designed for the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease.
Reaction Engine
Reaction Motor
An Engine that provides propulsion by expelling Reaction Mass.
Mobile Telephone
A Telephone that is connected to a Telephone Network by radio waves.
Scalp Hair
A Bodily Component that consists of a portion of hair that grows on the scalp of a human or other animal.
Telephone Line
Telephone Circuit
A Telecommunication Network Line that consists of a physical wire or other signaling medium that is designed to be part of a Telephone Network.
Open Pit Mine
A Mine that is designed to support the extraction of materials from the ground directly without using tunnels.
Measurement Unit of Flow
A Measurement Unit that is used as a standard for measurement of the rate at which portions of a substance pass per unit of time.
Frequency Measurement Artifact Function
A Measurement Artifact Function that is realized during events in which an Artifact is used to measure the Frequency of a specified object or class of objects.
This is a defined class.
Multi-Hour Temporal Interval
A one-dimensional temporal region that is measured in Hours and spans at least one Hour.
Book
An Information Bearing Artifact that is designed to bear some specific Information Content Entity by means of ink, paper, parchment, or other materials fastened together to hinge at one side.
Act of Location Change
An Act of Motion in which the location of some Object is changed by some Agent.
Military Artifact Function
A Service Artifact Function that is realized in processes related to the armed services.
In traditional astronomical usage, civil time is mean solar time as calculated from midnight as the beginning of the Civil Day.
Note that Civil Time Reference System is more accurately represented as a Temporal Reference System that participates in an act of usage that is sanctioned by an appropriate civil authority. As such, it should be represented as a defined class.
Civil Time Reference System
A Temporal Reference System that is a statutory time scale as designated by civilian authorities to determine local time(s).
Three-Dimensional Path
A Three-Dimensional Spatial Region that encompasses the spatial region through which some Object travels.
Transcript
A Document that is designed to bear some specific Information Content Entity that was originally recorded in a different medium.
Ground Track Point
A Zero-Dimensional Spatial Region that is an idealized point located on the surface of an Astronomical Body directly below an Object Track Point.
Town
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.
Low Density Residential Area
A Populated Place where houses are on lots of more than one acre.
Anderson et. al. A Land Use and Land Cover Classification System for use with Remote Sensor Data, Geological Survey Professional Paper 964
Temporal Interval Identifier
One-Dimensional Temporal Region Identifier
A Temporal Region Identifier that designates some Temporal Interval.
Measurement Unit of Acceleration
A Measurement Unit that is used as a standard for measurement of the rate at which objects change their velocities per unit of time.
feet per second per second, kilometers per second per second
Optical Microscope
Light Microscope
A Microscope that is designed to use visible light and a system of Optical Lenses to produce a significantly enlarged image of the Object.
Wired Communication Artifact Function
A Communication Artifact Function that is realized in a process that conveys meaningful signs by means of a (usually cylindrical) flexible strand or rod of metal.
Code Identifier
Code ID
ID Code
Identifier Code
A Non-Name Identifier that consists of a string of characters that was created and assigned according to an encoding system such that metadata can be derived from the identifier.
Although the boundary between Act of Estimation and guessing is vague, estimation can be partially distinguished from guessing in that every Act of Estimation has as input some relevant information; whereas an act of guessing can occur sans information (or at least sans pertinent information). For example, if Mr. Green were asked how many blades of grass are in his lawn, he could simply choose a number (i.e. he could guess) or he could estimate the number by counting how many baldes of grass are in 1 square foot of his lawn, measuring the square footage of his lawn, and then multiplying these values to arrive at a number. Hence, many estimates may be loosely considered to be educated guesses.
Note that, while every Act of Measuring arguably involves some degree of estimation (for example, a measuring instrument rounding to the nearest ten-thousandth or an Agent reading an analog display), it would be a mistake to classify all Acts of Measuring as Acts of Estimation. This holds even for cases (e.g. census taking) in which sofisticated estimations are often more accurate than other means of measuring (e.g. enumeration).
Act of Estimation
Act of Approximation
An Act of Measuring that involves the comparison of a measurement of a similar Entity or of a portion of the Entity being estimated to produce an approximated measurement of the target Entity.
measuring how much time a train will add to your commute by measuring how long it takes for 10 train cars to pass a given point and then combining this information with an estimate of how many train cars are in a typical train based on your past experience
measuring the amount of time required to do a task based on how long it took to do a similar task in the past
measuring the height of a building by counting the number of floors and multiplying it by the height of an average floor in an average building
measuring the property value of a house based on its square footage and the average cost per square foot of other houses in the area
In all cases, the Agent in an Act of Estimation either lacks complete information, lacks access to the relevant information, or chooses not to use the complete information (perhaps to save money or time) about the thing being estimated; instead, the Agent uses some or all of the relevant information that the Agent does have as a basis for arriving at the estimate.
Act of Social Movement
A Social Act composed of a series of performances, displays and campaigns directed at implementing, resisting or undoing a change in society.
Standard Time of Day Identifier
A Time of Day Identifier that designates an approximate Temporal Instant that is part of some Day and is specified using the Hours, Minutes, and Seconds of the Day that preceded the Temporal Instant.
Cutting Weapon
A Weapon that is designed to inflict harm, damage, or incapacity by means of separating some portion of its target into two or more portions through the application of acutely directed force.
Green
A Color that is between Yellow and Cyan with a wavelength in the visible spectrum, typically between 520 to 560 nanometers.
Process Ending
A Process Boundary that occurs on a Zero-Dimensional Temporal Region that is the ending instant of the One-Dimensional Temporal Region on which the Process, of which the Process Boundary is a part, occurs.
Bodily Component
A Fiat Object Part located within or on the surface of an Agent.
Bodily Components include anatomical structures, body flora, pathogens, toxins, and their combinations.
Minute
A Temporal Interval that is equal to sixty consecutive Seconds.
Autopilot System
Autopilot
A Vehicle Control System that is designed to enable some Agent to control the trajectory of a Vehicle without constant 'hands-on' control.
An Ordinal Date Identifier may or may not also contain a number indicating a specific Year. If both numbers are included, the ISO 8601 ordinal date format stipulates that the two numbers be formatted as YYYY-DDD or YYYYDDD where [YYYY] indicates a year and [DDD] is the day of that year, from 001 through 365 (or 366 in leap years).
Ordinal Date Identifier
Ordinal Date
A Decimal Date Identifier that designates some Day by using a number to indicate the sequential ordering of the Day since the beginning of the Year.
Firearm
A Projectile Launcher that is designed to launch Bullets or Cartridges.
Skill
An Agent Capability that inheres in a Person to the extent of that Person's capacity to realize it in Intentional Acts of a certain type.
Infrared Telescope
A Telescope that is designed to aid in the observation of spatially distant Objects by means of collecting and focusing infrared light to form an enhanced image of the Object.
Portion of Coolant
A Portion of Material that is designed to be used in a thermal control system to reduce or maintain the temperature of an object to or at a specified level.
Bidirectional Transducer
A Transducer that is designed to receive a signal in the form of physical phenomena and convert it into an electrical signal, and vice versa.
Preferred Stock
Stock that entitles its holder to receive a certain level of dividend payments before any dividends can be issued to other holders.
Seat of National Government
A Government Building that is designed for the administration of a sovereign nation.
Control Surface
A Material Artifact that is designed to deflect air, water, or another medium around its surface in order to change the Attitude of a Vehicle by rotating the Vehicle on one or more of its Axes of Rotation.
Propulsion System
A Material Artifact that is designed to facilitate the movement of material entities from one location to another and which consists of a source of mechanical power and a means of converting this power into propulsive force to generate the movement.
Complex Optical Lens
Lens System
An Optical Lens consisting of more than one Simple Optical Lenses.
Hecht, Eugene (1987). Optics (2nd ed.). Addison Wesley. ISBN 978-0-201-11609-0. Chapters 5 & 6.
Electrical Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized during events in which an Artifact is used to perform a process involving electrical power.
Wave Process
A Natural Process that involves Oscillation accompanied by a transfer of energy that travels through a portion of matter or spatial region.
Stasis of Partially Mission Capable
A Stasis of Mission Capability during which the participating Continuant is capable of performing some but not all of its primary functions for the specified Mission.
Portion of Liquid Oxygen
A Portion of Cryogenic Material that is composed (almost) entirely of liquid oxygen.
Skin Type is classified according to a reference system such as the Fitzpatrick scale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzpatrick_scale
Skin Type
A Quality inhering in a portion of skin by virtue of its color and natural tendency to respond to ultraviolet light.
Vehicle Compartment
Compartment
A Material Artifact that is designed to partition a Vehicle into subdivisions for various purposes.
Underwater Mine
A Mine that is designed to support the extraction of materials from the ocean floor.
Square
A Rectangular shape which has four equal length sides and four 90 degree angles.
An End of Life Stasis (EoL) is distinguished from a Stasis of Partially Mission Capable or Stasis of Non-Mission Capable in that EoL is more inclusive such that the participating Artifact may be either Partially or Non-Mission Capable. Additionally, EoL applies only to Artifacts and is typically determined in relation to its original mission and designed primary functions. In contrast, an Artifact's level of Mission Capability depends on the requirements of the mission under consideration such that a given Artifact may simultaneously be Fully Mission Capable for mission1, Partially Mission Capable for mission2, and Non-Mission Capable for mission3.
End of Life Stasis
A Stasis of Artifact Operationality that holds during a Temporal Interval when the participating Artifact is no longer capable of realizing all of its designed primary Artifact Functions.
Increase of Generically Dependent Continuant
An Increase of Dependent Continuant in which some Independent Continuant has an increase of some Generically Dependent Continuant that it bears.
Rail Facility
A Transportation Facility that is designed for transferring people or cargo to and from Trains.
Act of Military Force
A Planned Act of employing a Military Force to achieve some desired result.
Mechanical Process
A Process that is the realization of some Disposition of an Artifact
Air Inlet
Air Intake
A Fluid Control Artifact that consists of an opening that is designed to capture and direct the flow of air into the system it is part of.
Translucent
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.
Ventilation Control Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in processes in which some Artifact is used to control the quality of air in some space.
Unix Temporal Instant
A Temporal Instant as specified by the number of Seconds that have elapsed since the specified Epoch Time as described by an implementation of Unix Time.
Stasis of Disposition
A Stasis of Realizable Entity in which some Independent Continuant bears some Disposition that remains unchanged during a Temporal Interval.
Pump
A Fluid Control Artifact that is designed to impart motion to a portion of fluid to transport it within a system through the use of mechanical action.
Information Processing Artifact
A Material Artifact that is designed to use algorithms to transform some Information Content Entity into another Information Content Entity.
Artifact Function Specification
A Directive Information Content Entity that prescribes some Artifact Function and which is part of some Artifact Model.
Spatial Orientation
Attitude
A Relational Quality that is the angle of Rotation of an Object relative to one or more Plane of Reference or Axis of Rotation.
Measurement Unit
A Descriptive Information Content Entity that describes a definite magnitude of a physical quantity, defined and adopted by convention and/or by law, that is used as a standard for measurement of the same physical quantity.
Act of Conducting Mass Media Interview
An Act of Mass Media Communication involving a conversation between a reporter and a person of public interest, used as a basis of a broadcast or publication.
Vehicle Track Point
An Object Track Point that is where a Vehicle is or was located during some motion.
Examples: apologizing, condoling, congratulating, greeting, thanking, accepting (acknowledging an acknowledgment)
Act of Expressive Communication
An Act of Communication in which an Agent expresses their attitudes or emotions towards some entity.
Derived (loosely) from: John Searle's Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language
Solar Time Reference System
A Temporal Reference System that is based on the position of the Sun in the sky.
Bounding Box Point
A Geospatial Position that is a proper part of some Geospatial Region Bounding Box.
First-Order Administrative Region
A Government Domain that is a primary administrative division of a Country.
Performance Specification
A Directive Information Content Entity that prescribes some aspect of the behavior of a participant in a Process given one or more operating conditions.
Maximum Speed at high altitude; Rate of Ascent at 10 degrees celsius with nominal payload.
Portion of Liquid Hydrogen
A Portion of Cryogenic Material that is composed (almost) entirely of liquid hydrogen.
Tattoo
A Bodily Component that consists of a typically permanent mark or design on a portion of skin that is created by a process of pricking and ingraining an indelible pigment or by raising scars.
Power Transformer
A Material Artifact that is designed to transfer electrical energy between two or more circuits through electromagnetic induction.
Increase of Quality
An Increase of Specifically Dependent Continuant in which some Indpendent Continuant has an increase of some Quality that it bears.
Recording Device
An Information Processing Artifact that is designed to capture some information and store it in some recording format on some storage medium.
Examples: advising, admonishing, asking, begging, dismissing, excusing, forbidding, instructing, ordering, permitting, requesting, requiring, suggesting, urging, warning
Act of Directive Communication
An Act of Communication that is intended to cause the hearer to take a particular action.
Third-Order Administrative Region
A Government Domain that is a subdivision of a Second-Order Administrative Region.
Stasis of Specifically Dependent Continuant
A Stasis in which some Independent Continuant bears some Specifically Dependent Continuant that remains unchanged during a Temporal Interval.
Optical Instruments are typically constructed for the purpose of being used to aid in vision or the analysis of light.
Optical Instrument
A Material Artifact that is designed to process light waves.
Light waves can be processed in a variety of ways including via reflection, refraction, diffraction, deflection, focusing, collimation, dispersion, and interference.
Act of Financial Deposit
An Act of Financial Instrument Use wherein a Financial Instrument is transferred by an Agent (the Depositor) to another Agent to create a liability to be repaid to the Depositor through an Act of Financial Withdrawal.
Maximum Power
A Power that is characterized by the maximum rate of Work, or Energy consumed, done in a given time period.
Convention on Rights and Duties of States (inter-American); December 26, 1933. https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/intam03.asp. Accessed 6 Apr. 2023.
Domain of a Country
A Government Domain that is associated with certain distinct political, ethnic, or cultural characteristics, and which delimits a Government that has legitimate authority over a Populace.
'Country' is an unclear term. Does it refer to the people, the government, the site, or the material in the site? Furthermore, what is properly referred to as a 'Country' is highly dependent on the classification practices of the international community. For example: The United Kingdom is a sovereign country that has Wales, a non-sovereign Country, as a member. Vatican City is a sovereign country that is landlocked by a city: Rome, Italy. Puerto Rico is not a country (it's a territory) but has a government, a distinct culture, and so on. Thus, here we do not define 'Country' but instead define 'Domain of a Country'.
The type of particle quantified is typically either atoms or molecules, but may also be protons, neutrons, electrons, quarks, or other particles. The type of particle being measured should always be specified along with the measurement and its unit.
Measurement Unit of Amount of Substance
Measurement Unit of Chemical Amount
Measurement Unit of Enplethy
A Measurement Unit that is used as a standard for measurement of the number of a specified type of particle in a portion of matter.
Populace
A Group of Persons forming the total population of some Government Domain.
Act of Government
A Planned Act that is initiated or supported by some Geopolitical Entity and enforced by some Government Agent.
Cargo Cabin
A Vehicle Compartment that is used to store goods or materials during transportation.
Act of Meeting
An Act of Association wherein two or more Persons assemble for some common purpose.
http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=meet (Sense Key: meet%2:41:00, get together%2:41:00)
Incendiary Weapon
A Weapon that is designed to inflict harm, damage, or incapacity by means of starting a fire.
Artificial Language
A Language that is developed through conscious planning and premeditation, rather than one that was developed through use and repetition.
Flight Transponder
A Radio Transponder that is designed to produce a specified response (typically for identification, location, or status update purposes) when it receives a radio-frequency interrogation.
Clockwise Rotational Motion
CW Rotational Motion
Clockwise Rotation
A Rotational Motion in which the direction of rotation is toward the right as seen relative to the designated side of the plane of rotation.
the axial rotation of the Earth as seen from above the South Pole
Instant Messaging
Act of IMing
Act of Instant Messaging
An Act of Communication by Media in which real-time direct text-based communication occurs between two or more people using personal computers or other devices, along with shared Instant Messaging Client Software conveyed over a network, such as the Internet.
Radio Frequency
An Electromagnetic Radiation Frequency of some Electromagnetic Wave that is between 3 kHz and 300 GHz.
Act of Reporting
An Act of Representative Communication performed by giving a detailed account or statement.
Telephone Network
A Telecommunication Network that is designed to allow telephone calls to be made between two or more parties connected to the network.
Generator Control Unit
A Control System that is designed to regulate the voltage of some Electrical Power Source.
While there is always at least one Mode for every set of data, it is possible for any given set of data to have multiple Modes. The Mode is typically most useful when the members of the set are all Nominal Measurement Information Content Entities.
Mode Point Estimate Information Content Entity
Mode
Statistical Mode
A Point Estimate Information Content Entity that is a measurement of a set of values and is equal to the value or values that occur most often in the set.
Near Infrared Light Frequency
An Infrared Light Frequency that is between 214 and 400 terahertz.
Hand Gun
A Firearm that is designed to have a relatively short barrel and to be held in one or two hands and to be fired without being braced against the shoulder.
Facial Hair
A Bodily Component that consists of a portion of hair that grows on the face of a human (typically male) or other animal.
Lithium-ion Electric Battery
A Secondary Cell Electric Battery that produces electricity when lithium ions move from anode to cathode.
Timekeeping Instrument
An Information Bearing Artifact that is designed to bear some specific Information Content Entity that is about some temporal region.
Manual Tool
Hand Tool
A Tool that is designed to be powered by manual labor rather than by an engine.
Coordinate System Axis
A One-Dimensional Spatial Region defined by a Coordinate System for the purpose of identifying the position of entities along one dimension of the Coordinate System's spatial framework.
Electrical Connector Artifact Function
An Electrical Conduction Artifact Function that is realized by processes in which some Artifact is used to join electrical terminations to create an electrical circuit.
z-Axis
A Coordinate System Axis designated by the variable 'z'.
Minimum Ordinal Measurement Information Content Entity
An Ordinal Measurement Information Content Entity that is a measurement of some entity in virtue of it being the smallest or having the least amount relative to a nominally described set of like entities.
Criminal Act
A Planned Act committed in violation of rules or laws for which some governing authority (via mechanisms such as legal systems) can prescribe a conviction.
Wave Cycle
A Wave Process that consists of a portion of a Wave Process that begins at an arbitrary point of the Wave Process and ends at the next point when the pattern of the Wave Process begins to repeat.
Large-Scale Rocket Launcher
A Rocket Launcher that is designed to contain multiple Rocket Launchers.
Act of Interpersonal Relationship
An Act of Association between two or more Persons that may range from fleeting to enduring.
The corresponding Wavelength range is 10–1 m
Very High Frequency
ITU Band Number 8
A Radio Frequency that is between 30 and 300 MHz.
International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and IEEE 521-2002 - IEEE Standard Letter Designations for Radar-Frequency Bands
Object Track Point
A Zero-Dimensional Spatial Region that is an idealized point where an Object is or was located during some motion.
Detergent Artifact Function
A Surfactant Artifact Function that is realized in a process that cleans substances in dilute solutions.
Base of Operations
Main Operating Base
A Military Base with permanently stationed operating forces, robust Infrastructure, and strengthened force protection measures such that it is designed to launch and support large-scale operations, support smaller or less-permanent bases, and organize supply facilities.
Civilian Role
A Role that inheres in an Agent or Group of Agents by virtue of that Agent or Group of Agents not being part of either an Armed Force or police force.
Ultraviolet Telescope
UV Telescope
A Telescope that is designed to aid in the observation of spatially distant Objects by means of collecting and focusing ultraviolet light to form an enhanced image of the Object.
Organization Member Role
A Role that inheres in an Agent in virtue of the responsibilities that Agent is expected to fulfill as a member of some Organization.
Lee, David S., and Brad Glosserman. “How Companies Can Navigate Today’s Geopolitical Risks.” Harvard Business Review, 28 Nov. 2022. hbr.org, https://hbr.org/2022/11/how-companies-can-navigate-todays-geopolitical-risks.
University, Utah State. Geopolitical Power | Aggies GO. https://chass.usu.edu/international-studies/aggies-go/power. Accessed 6 Apr. 2023.
Geopolitical Organization
An Organization that bears a Geopolitical Power Role.
Affordance
A Realizable Entity of an Independent Continuant that creates an opportunity for an Agent to realize some Agent Capability or Disposition in some Act.
J. J. Gibson, "The Theory of Affordances," in The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception (NY: Taylor & Francis Group, 1986): 127-143. Available at: https://archive.org/details/pdfy-u5hmFOvOM2Civ4Gz/page/n70/mode/1up.
Arrow
A Portion of Ammunition that is designed to be fired from a Bow and consists of a long straight stiff shaft with stabilizers (fletchings) and a slot (the nock) on one end and a weighted tip (the arrowhead) on the other end.
More generally, Thrust is the propulsive Force of a Rocket.
Thrust
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.
Hotel
A Residential Facility that is designed to provide lodging that is paid for on a short-term basis.
Language Skill
A Skill that is realized by an Act which is prescribed by a Language.
Act of Thanking
An Act of Expressive Communication performed by expressing gratitude.
Fragrance Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in processes of perceiving a pleasant or sweet odor.
Axial Rotation Period
A Temporal Interval that is equal to the length of time required for a spinning Object to complete one rotation around its Axis of Rotation.
Blunt
A Shape Quality inhering in a bearer in virtue of the bearer not having a sharp edge or point.
Artifact Version Ordinality
An Ordinal Measurement Information Content Entity that is about the form of an Artifact which differs in some respects from previous or future forms of that Artifact.
Authority Role
A Role that is realized by Processes which create, modify, transfer, or eliminate Process Regulations or other Authority Roles, and inheres in an Agent in virtue of collective acceptance of that Agent's ability to issue binding directives.
Authority Roles are externally grounded in a social group's collective acceptance of the binding force of the agent's directives. This acceptance can be direct or indirect (e.g., by accepting a procedure for deputizing authority). Such collective acceptance need not be explicit or cognized; rather, collective acceptance can be expressed in the dispositions and attitudes of people toward that agent's directives. In many cases, the directives issued by Authority Roles are backed by threats of punishment or sanction for failure to comply, but the issuing of a directive plus a threat is not sufficient for authority. Rather, an agent's authority must be accepted either directly or indirectly through the acceptance of a procedure for bestowing authority (e.g., elections).
Ground Track
Ground Trace
A One-Dimensional Spatial Region defined by the line formed on the surface of an Astronomical Body by projecting an imaginary line from the center of the tracked Object to the center of the Astronomical Body as the Object travels above the surface.
The Ground Track is the line on the surface of the Earth or other Astronomical Body that is located directly below the Object Track.
Certificate
An Information Bearing Artifact that bears an Information Content Entity which attests to certain demonstrated characteristics of an Object, Person, or Organization.
Minimum Speed Artifact Function
A Speed Artifact Function that is realized in some process in which the Artifact bearing the Artifact Function attains the lowest speed at which that Artifact is designed to operate.
Act of Homicide
An Act of Violence which causes the unlawful killing of another person.
Facility
A Material Artifact that is designed as a building or campus dedicated to some specific purpose.
Telephone Subscriber Line
A Telephone Line that connects a Communication Endpoint to another node in a Telecommunication Network to enable service to a user's Telephone.
Electrical Contact Artifact Function
An Electrical Conduction Artifact Function that is realized by processes in which some Artifact is used as an endpoint of an electrical circuit from which an electrical current is passed via physical contact with the endpoint.
Heliport
An Airport that is designed for launching, receiving, and housing Rotorcraft.
Purple
A Color that is aproximately midway between Red and Blue.
Process Beginning
A Process Boundary that occurs on a Zero-Dimensional Temporal Region that is the starting instant of the One-Dimensional Temporal Region on which the Process, of which the Process Boundary is a part, occurs.
Measurement Unit of Sound Level
A Measurement Unit that is used as a standard for measurement of the level (the loudness) of sounds.
Camera
An Imaging Instrument that is designed to form and digitally or physically record an image of an entity.
Act of Pilgrimage
An Act of Travel to a location of importance to a person's beliefs and faith.
Act of Change of Residence
An Act of Location Change involving one or more Persons moving from one place of residence to another.
Act of Terrorist Training Instruction
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.
Event Status Nominal Information Content Entity
A Nominal Measurement Information Content Entity that is a measurement of the current state of a process.
proposed, approved, planned, in progress, completed, failed, or successful
Rifle
A Long Gun that is designed to have a rifled barrel and to fire single Bullets over long ranges with high accuracy.
The exact line of the Object Track may be drawn based on the Center of Mass of the Object or another reference point, such as the location of a transponder beacon or the center of a radar cross-section, depending on the Object being tracked.
Object Track
A One-Dimensional Spatial Region that consists of the idealized line along which an Object has traversed during some motion.
Friction Reduction Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in processes of reducing the force resisting the relative motion of surfaces in contact.
One-Dimensional Geospatial Boundary
A Fiat Line that is a boundary of some Geospatial Region.
Act of Congratulating
An Act of Expressive Communication performed by expressing vicarious pleasure to a person on the occasion of their success or good fortune.
Sound Wavelength
A Wavelength that is the distance a Sound Wave traverses during one Wave Cycle.
Engine
Motor
A Material Artifact that is designed to convert one form of energy into mechanical energy.
Multi-Day Temporal Interval
A one-dimensional temporal region that is measured in Days and spans at least one Day.
Chemical Weapon
A Weapon that is designed to inflict harm, damage, or incapacity by means of releasing toxic chemicals.
Subcontinent
A Geospatial Region that is bounded by a large, relatively self-contained landmass forming a subdivision of a Continent.
Moving Target Indication Artifact Function
A Radar Imaging Artifact Function that inheres in Artifacts that are designed to identify and produce visual representations of moving entities by using a radar to emit successive phase coherent pulses, which are sampled and added to the subsequent pulse to cancel out signals from non-moving entities such that only signals from moving entities remain and are displayed.
A Radio Telescope consists of a specialized Antenna and a Radio Receiver and is typically used to receive radio waves from sources in outer space.
Radio Telescope
A Telescope that is designed to aid in the observation of spatially distant Objects by means of collecting and focusing radio waves to form an enhanced image of the Object.
Shell
A Portion of Ammunition that is designed to be a non-self-propelled projectile and to carry a payload (explosive or other) over a relatively short distance.
Measurement Unit of Area
A Measurement Unit that is used as a standard for measurement of two-dimensional regions or Geospatial Regions.
square feet, square meters, acre, hectare
Major Axis
A One-Dimensional Spatial Region that is the longest line segment that connects two points on the edge of an Ellipse.
Reflecting Optical Telescope
Reflecting Telescope
Reflector
An Optical Telescope that is designed to aid in the observation of spatially distant Objects by means of collecting and focusing visible light via reflection through the use of one or more curved Mirrors to form an enhanced image of the Object.
Ammunition Depot
A Storage Facility that is designed to store Portions of Ammunition.
Semi-Minor Axis
A One-Dimensional Spatial Region that is equal to half the length of the Minor Axis of an Ellipse.
Presence Frequency
A Sonic Frequency that is between 4 and 6 kHz.
Time of Day
A Temporal Instant that is part of a Day.
Populated place
An Anthropogenic Feature at which people live or have lived.
Month
A Temporal Interval that is based on the approximate length of time required for a Natural Satellite to complete one cycle of its rotational motion around its Primary Body.
Unless otherwise specified, it is assumed that a Month is specified relative to the Rotational Motion of the Moon around the Earth. Earth Months are approximately equal to four consecutive Weeks or 30 consecutive Days.
Transportation Facility
A Facility that is designed for commencing or concluding the transportation of transportation artifacts, or for housing transportation artifacts.
A Julian Year begins concurrently with January 1, ends concurrently with December 31, and has an average duration of exactly 365.25 Julian Days. Julian Years are typically indicated by prefixing a capital 'J' in front of the Year number, e.g. J2000.0 or J2018.
Julian Year
A Calendar Year in the Julian Calendar.
Planned Act
Intentional Act
An Act in which at least one Agent plays a causative role and which is prescribed by some Directive Information Content Entity held by at least one of the Agents.
Measurement Unit of Power
A Measurement Unit that is used as a standard for measurement of rates of work.
Diffraction Grating
An Optical Instrument with a periodic structure that is designed to split and defract a beam of light into several beams travelling in different directions.
Torpedo Tube
A Projectile Launcher that is designed to launch Torpedoes.
Pumping Station
A Product Transport Facility that is designed to pump fluids from one place to another.
Stock Certificate
Stock that consists of a Certificate.
Act of Training
A Planned Act in which knowledge, skills or values are imparted from one or more Agents to at least one other Agent.
Act of Vocational Training Acquisition
An Act of Training Acquisition performed by an Agent by acquiring skills required for a specific occupation in industry, agriculture or trade from an Agent or communication medium that realizes a capacity derived from its affiliation with a Vocational School, Technical School, Trade Organization, or Industry Educational Program Provider.
Lighting System
A Material Artifact that is designed to emit light within some area.
Act of Terrorist Training Acquisition
An Act of Training Acquisition performed by an Agent by acquiring 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 from an Agent or communication medium that realizes a capacity derived from its affiliation with a Terrorist Organization.
Propeller
Propelling Screw
A Material Artifact that is designed to convert rotary motion from an Engine or other mechanical Power Source into propulsive Force.
Measurement Unit of Mass
A Measurement Unit that is used as a standard for measurement of an object's resistance to Acceleration when a Force is applied to the object.
Act of Oath Taking
An Act of Commissive Communication performed by stating or promising, usually calling upon something or someone that the oath maker considers sacred.
Two-Dimensional Barcode
A Barcode that is designed to bear lines of varying widths, spacing, height, and color that concretize some Directive Information Content Entity.
Data Matrix Code
A Two-Dimensional Barcode that consists of cells arranged in rectangular patterns and is used for marking small items in logistics and operations.
Heat Sink
A Material Artifact that is designed to regulate the temperature of a computer by the passive transfer of heat away from other components in the computer.
Fragmentation Artifact Function
A Damaging Artifact Function that is realized in a process in which the structural integrity of an entity is impaired because of a detonation which causes fragmentation.
Petroleum Manufacturing Facility
A Factory that is designed to manufacture petroleum-based products.
Stasis of Realizable Entity
A Stasis of Specifically Dependent Continuant in which some Independent Continuant bears some Realizable Entity that remains unchanged during a Temporal Interval.
Road
A Land Transportation Artifact that is designed to enable Ground Vehicles to travel from one location to another.
Chemical Manufacturing Facility
A Factory that is designed to manufacture or process chemicals.
A Shaft is usually used to connect other components of a drive train that cannot be connected directly either because of the distance between them or the need to allow for relative movement between those components.
Shaft
A Material Artifact that is designed to rotate and transmit Torque, Power, or Rotational Motion from one machine element to another.
Loss of Realizable Entity
A Loss of Specifically Dependent Continuant in which some Independent Continuant ceases to be the bearer of some Realizable Entity.
Continent
A Geospatial Region that is bounded by any of the Earth's main continuous expanses of land.
Nozzle
A Fluid Control Artifact that is designed to control the speed, direction, rate, shape, or pressure of the flow of fluid exiting it.
Information Bearing Entity
IBE
An Object upon which an Information Content Entity generically depends.
Transportation Artifact
A Material Artifact that is fixed in place and designed to bear a Function, the realization of which is sometimes part of a process moving Vehicles and Agents from one location to another.
Portion of Cryogenic Material
A Portion of Material that has been reduced to a very low temperature (below -180 degrees Celcius).
Fluid Control Artifact
A Material Artifact that is designed to manipulate the flow of a fluid (i.e. a liquid or a gas).
Radiopaque
Radiodense
A Radiopacity that inheres in a bearer in virtue of its capacity to prevent most X-rays from passing through it.
One-Dimensional Barcode
A Barcode that is designed to bear parallel lines of varying widths and spacing that concretize some Directive Information Content Entity.
Calendar Month
A Month that begins and ends concurrently with the Days specified by a Calendar System to be the first and last Days of the Month.
January; February; March; April; May; June; July; August; September; October; November; December
Muzzle Blast
A Sound Wave Process that is caused by a projectile being pushed from the barrel of a firearm by an explosive charge.
Currently gamma radiation is distinguished from x-rays by their source--either inside or outside of the nucleus--rather than by frequency, energy, and wavelength. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_ray#Naming_conventions_and_overlap_in_terminology
Gamma Ray Frequency
An Electromagnetic Radiation Frequency of some Electromagnetic Wave that is above 30 exahertz.
Shop
A Commercial Facility designed to sell small lots of goods to consumers.
A single Clock Time System does not provide a complete means for identifying or measuring times. Depending on the particular Clock Time System, it may be compatible for use with one or more other Temporal Reference Systems.
Clock Time System
A Temporal Reference System that is a convention for keeping and displaying the Time of Day.
Hydraulic Fluid Reservoir
A Container that is designed to store some hydraulic fluid for use in some Hyrdraulic Power Source.
Election
Act of Political Election
A Social Act by which a population chooses an individual to hold public office.
Hearing Aid
A Medical Artifact that is designed to improve hearing for its user.
Catalyst Artifact Function
A Chemical Reaction Artifact Function that is realized in a process in which the rate of a chemical reaction is increased due to the participation of an additional substance, without that substance being consumed in the reaction.
Cannon
A Projectile Launcher that is designed to use a controlled explosion to launch a relatively large Portion of Ammunition, such as a Round Shot or a Shell, at a significant Velocity.
Radio Transmitter
A Radio Communication Instrument that is an electronic device that is designed to generate a radio frequency alternating current, which can be applied to a Radio Antenna to be transmitted as radio waves.
Educational Facility
A Facility that is designed for facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits.
Underground Mine
A Mine that is designed to support the extraction of materials from the ground using underground tunnels and shafts.
Combustion
Burning Process
Combustion Process
A Natural Process in which a Portion of Fuel or other Material Entity is burned.
Communication Interference Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized during events in which an Artifact is used to interfere with the transmission of information for the purpose of preventing communication.
Armed Force
An Organization having the Objective to further the foreign and domestic policies of a Government and to defend that body and the nation it represents from external and internal aggressors.
Note that, while reference systems and reference frames are treated as synonyms here, some people treat them as related but separate entities. See: http://www.ggos-portal.org/lang_en/GGOS-Portal/EN/Topics/GeodeticApplications/GeodeticReferenceSystemsAndFrames/GeodeticReferenceSystemsAndFrames.html
Spatial Reference System
Coordinate System
Spatial Coordinate System
Spatial Reference Frame
A Reference System that describes a set of standards for uniquely identifying the position of an entity or the direction of a vector within a defined spatial region by means of measurements along one or more Coordinate System Axes.
Solar Calendar System
A Calendar System that is designed to organize and identify dates based on the cycles of an Astronomical Body's Orbit around the Sun.
Unless otherwise specified, a Solar Calendar System is assumed to be relative to the Orbit of the Earth around the Sun.
Nuclear Weapon
A Weapon that is designed to inflict harm, damage, or incapacity by means of a destructive nuclear reaction, either through fission or through a combination of fission and fusion.
The SI unit of measure for Momentum is Newton seconds (N s).
Momentum
A Process Profile of an object in Motion that is the product of its Mass and Velocity with respect to a frame of reference.
Enemy Role
An Allegiance Role that inheres in an Agent by virtue of that Agent having committed offensive Acts or exhibited intent to perform such Acts towards a particular Agent or Group of Agents or has been declared as hostile by some appropriate authority.
Torpedo
A Precision-Guided Missile that is designed to be fired into a body of water, be self-propelled through the water, and carry an explosive payload.
Albedo
A Radiation Reflectivity that inheres in a bearer in virtue of the capacity of its surface to reflect incident electromagnetic radiation of a particular wavelength.
Albedo is a reflection coefficient and is measured as the ratio of radiation reflected from the surface to the incident radiation. Albedo is dimensionless, can be expressed as a percentage, and is measured on a scale from 0 for no reflection to 1 for perfect reflection of a surface. Albedo depends on the wavelength of the radiation; when no wavelength is specified, it typically refers to some appropriate average across the spectrum of visible light.
Counterfeit Financial Instrument
A Counterfeit Instrument that is designed to be a fake replica of some legally sanctioned Financial Instrument.
Cylindrical
Columnar
A Three Dimensional Shape inhering in a bearer in virtue of the bearer having an elongated shape with round bases.
Strength
A Realizable Entity that is realized when its bearer exerts or resists some power, influence, or force.
Strength is intended to be understood broadly here. Physical strength is only one type of Strength. Other subtypes of Strength may include military strength, psychological strength, emotional strength, political strength, technological strength, and so on.
Emergency Locator Transmitter
A Radio Transmitter that is designed to signal distress and provide positional data for the entity it is located on.
Stasis of Partially Mission Capable Maintenance
A Stasis of Partially Mission Capable during which the participating Continuant is not capable of performing some of its primary functions for the specified Mission due to participating in an Act Of Maintenance.
Inertial Navigation System
INS
A Navigation System that is designed to continuously calculate via dead reckoning the position, orientation, and velocity of a moving object without the need for external references.
Power Source
A Material Artifact that is designed to supply power to some other Artifact.
Radar Imaging Artifact Function
An Imaging Artifact Function that inheres in Artifacts that are designed to produce visual representations of entities using radio waves.
Decrease of Specifically Dependent Continuant
A Decrease of Dependent Continuant in which some Independent Continuant has a decrease in some Specifically Dependent Continuant that it bears.
Act of Decoy Use
An Act of Artifact Employment in which some Agent uses some Decoy.
Artifact Identifier
A Designative Information Content Entity which designates some Artifact.
Four of the subtypes of measurements used here (Interval, Nominal, Ordinal, and Ratio) were originally defined by S.S. Stevens in the article "On the Theory of Scales of Measurement" in Science, Vol. 103 No. 2684 on June 7, 1946. For an introductory article with links to additional content including criticisms and alternate classifications of measurements see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_of_measurement
Nominal Measurement Information Content Entity
A Measurement Information Content Entity that consists of a symbol that classifies Entities according to some shared, possibly arbitrary, characteristic.
The sentence "January 20, 1985 was a cold day in Chicago, IL" is the carrier of a nominal measurement.
a measurement that classifies automobiles as sedans, coupes, hatchbacks, or convertibles
a measurement that classifies military intelligence as strategic, operational, or tactical
a measurement that classifies rocks as igneous, sedimentary, or metamorphic
Air-Breathing Jet Engine
Ducted Jet Engine
A Jet Engine that is propelled by a jet of hot exhaust gases formed from air that is drawn into the Engine via an Air Inlet.
Wetness
A Quality that inheres in a bearer in virtue of the degree to which the bearer is covered by a liquid, typically on a continuum of dry to wet.
Angular Velocity
Rotational Velocity
A Velocity that is characterized by both the angular Speed of an object and the Axis about which the object is Rotating.
Portion of Hydrosphere
A fiat object part of the combined mass of water found on, under, and above the surface of a natural satellite
Shoulder-Fired Rocket Launcher
A Rocket Launcher that is designed to be small enough to be carried by a single person and fired while supported on the person's shoulder.
Prosthetic Leg
A Prosthesis that is designed to replace a missing leg.
Group of Agents
An Object Aggregate that has only Agents as parts.
Vehicle Transmission
Gearbox
Transmission
A Power Transmission Artifact that is designed to vary the output speed and torque in a rotating power transfer system.
Alternating Current Power Source
An Electrical Power Source that is designed to transfer electrical power in the form of alternating current.
Intercommunication System
A Communication System that is designed to enable some Act of Communication between end points within a building, small collection of buildings, or within a small area of service.
Microscope
An Imaging Instrument that is designed to enable users to see Objects that are otherwise too small to be seen by the naked eye by producing a significantly enlarged image of the Object.
Sound Pressure
Acoustic Pressure
A Pressure that is caused by a Sound Wave and is a local deviation from the ambient Pressure.
Hinge
A Machine Bearing that is designed to limit the angle of Rotation between two solid objects.
Portion of Food
A Portion of Processed Material that is designed to be consumed and ingested for nutrition or taste.
Act of Military Service
An Act of Employment wherein a Person serves as a member of a Military Force, whether voluntarily or by conscription.
Healthcare Artifact Function
A Service Artifact Function that is realized in processes of treating and preventing illness.
Grenade
Hand Grenade
An Explosive Weapon that is designed to be relatively small and to be thrown by hand.
Filtration Artifact Function
A Filter Function that is realized in a process in which some solid entity is prevented from moving along with some quantity of liquid.
Propulsion Process
A Natural Process in which one or more Forces are generated and applied to a participating Object such that the Object is set in Motion or has the direction or magnitude of its Motion altered.
a twin-engine turboprop plane rotating both of its propellers against a portion of atmosphere to propel the plane forward
an apple falling to the ground under the power of Earth's gravitational force
burning a portion of fuel to produce exhaust that is ejected through a jet nozzle to propel a rocket and its payload
heat from a fire causing ashes to rise into the sky
launching a water balloon using a sling shot
turning a paddle wheel against a portion of water to propel the paddle boat forward
In each case, a Propulsion Process minimally involves the Object being propelled, a Reaction Mass (e.g. a portion of water, atmosphere, exhaust, etc.), and the Force(s) acting between these two entities.
Assuming a non-dispersive media, the Wavelength will be the inverse of the Frequency.
Wavelength
A Wave Process Profile that is the distance the Wave Process traverses during one Wave Cycle.
Typically, an IQE will be a complex pattern made up of multiple qualities joined together spatially.
Information Quality Entity
IQE
A Quality that concretizes some Information Content Entity.
Telecommunication Switching Node
A Telecommunication Network Node that is capable of redirecting a communication transmission to another Telecommunication Network Node.
Portion of Liquid Helium
A Portion of Cryogenic Material that is composed (almost) entirely of liquid helium.
Electronic Signal Processing Artifact Function
A Signal Processing Artifact Function that inheres in Artifacts that are designed to process or transfer information contained in electronic signals.
Disease
A Disposition to undergo pathological processes that exists in an organism because of one or more disorders in that organism.
Artifact Design
A Directive Information Content Entity that is a specification of an object, manifested by an agent, intended to accomplish goals, in a particular environment, using a set of primitive components, satisfying a set of requirements, subject to constraints.
Act of Reconnaissance
An Act of Intelligence Gathering used to determine an Agent's disposition and intention; the composition and capabilities of Equipment and Facilities, and the surrounding landforms and weather conditions.
Residential Artifact Function
A Service Artifact Function that is realized in processes of residing in a dwelling or home.
Act of Funding
An Act of Financial Instrument Use in which an Agent provides a sum of money to another Agent for a particular purpose.
Artifact Function
A Function that inheres in some Artifact in virtue of that Artifact being designed to be used in processes that require that Function to be realized.
Width
A One Dimensional Extent that inheres in a bearer in virtue of the bearer's extension in a horizontal direction.
Radio Transponder
Transmitter-Responder
A Radio Communication Instrument that is an electronic device that acts as both a Radio Transmitter and responder and is used to wirelessly receive and transmit electrical signals.
UPC Barcode
A One-Dimensional Barcode that consists of 6 or 12 numerical digits and is used to scan consumer goods.
Texture
A Quality that inheres in a bearer in virtue of the size, shape, and distribution of features on its surface, typically on a continuum from smooth to rough.
Transportation Infrastructure
An Infrastructure System that is designed to facilitate the movement of material entities from one location to another by providing the necessary structures for Persons to travel or for Vehicles to transport material entities.
Multi-Month Temporal Interval
A one-dimensional temporal region that is measured in Months and spans at least one Month.
Thermal Power Plant
An Electric Power Station that is designed to convert heat energy into electrical energy.
House
A Residential Facility that is designed to provide a self-standing, permanent residence for an individual, family, household, multiple families, or similar-sized group.
Training Camp
A Facility that is designed for rigorous and focused training in order to learn or improve skills, usually involving physical actions.
Gas Turbine
Combustion Turbine
An Internal Combustion Engine that has a rotating compressor and a turbine and is designed to operate utilizing continous Combustion to produce Thrust, either directly via exhaust or indirectly via a prop.
Interphone
An Intercommunication System that that is designed to facilitate some Act of Communication between agents by means of audio messages.
Stasis of Generically Dependent Continuant
A Stasis in which some Independent Continuant bears some Generically Dependent Continuant that remains unchanged during a Temporal Interval.
Apartment Building
A Residential Facility that is designed to contain multiple permanent residences comprised of a suite of rooms.
Rocket-Propelled Grenade
An Unguided Rocket that is designed to contain an explosive warhead, be fired from a Shoulder-Fired Rocket Launcher, and be used against Tanks.
Fan
A Fluid Control Artifact that consists of a rotating arrangement of vanes or blades that are designed to act on a portion of fluid to create flow within it.
Agricultural Facility
A Facility that is designed as a building or campus for agricultural processes with the aim of cultivating animals, plants, or fungi for food, fiber, biofuel, medicinal plants, or other products to sustain and enhance human life.
Mortar
A Cannon that is designed to fire projectiles at relatively low velocities over relatively short ranges.
Prosthetic Arm
A Prosthesis that is designed to replace a missing arm.
Brake
A Material Artifact that is designed to inhibit the Vehicle's Motion by absorbing energy from a moving system.
Reciprocating Steam Engine
A Steam Engine that is designed to use one or more reciprocating pistons to convert pressure into a rotating motion.
Surfactant Artifact Function
An Emulsifier Artifact Function that is realized in a process that lowers the surface tension between two liquids or between a liquid and a solid.
Act of Measuring
A Planned Act that involves determining the extent, dimensions, quanity, or quality of an Entity relative to some standard.
putting an object on a scale to measure its weight in kilograms
rating Hollywood movies on a 1 to 5 star scale
using a tape measure to determine the height and width of a doorway in inches
Communication Instrument
A Material Artifact that is designed to facilitate communication between at least two entities.
Electronic Bond
A Bond that consists of Bytes.
Filter
A Material Artifact that bears a Filter Function.
Police Station
A Public Safety Facility that is designed for the professional and clerical processes of a local police force.
Cooling System
An Environment Control System that is designed to cool the air or objects in a Site.
Act of Commanding
An Act of Directive Communication that exercises authoritative control or power over another agent's actions.
http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=commanding (Edited 08-22-2016)
Satellite Artifact
A Spacecraft that is designed to Orbit a Space Object (typically Earth).
Research Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized during events in which an Artifact is used to perform research on a specified entity or class of entities.
Act of Testifying
An Act of Representative Communication performed by stating one's personal knowledge or belief.
Refracting Optical Telescope
Refracting Telescope
Refractor
An Optical Telescope that is designed to aid in the observation of spatially distant Objects by means of collecting and focusing visible light via refraction through the use of one or more Lenses to form an enhanced image of the Object.
Act of Publishing Mass Media Article
An Act of Mass Media Communication involving the preparation and public issuance of a non-fictional essay, especially one included with others in a newspaper, magazine, journal, etc.
Act of Motion
A Planned Act by which an Agent causes the position or location of some Object to change.
Geospatial Region Bounding Box
A Geospatial Polygon that has some Geospatial Region as a non-tangential proper part.
Julian Date
A Time of Day as specified according to the Julian Calendar using the Julian Date epoch.
Wounded Stasis
Wounded
A Damaged Stasis in which a Person or other organism is the bearer of a Quality or Realizable Entity that has suffered impairment (i.e., a decrease or loss) due to an injuring event.
Increase of Function
An Increase of Disposition in which some Independent Continuant has an increase of some Function that it bears.
Most rocket engines are also Internal Combustion Engines, however non-combusting forms also exist. For example, an untied balloon full of air that is released and allowed to zoom around the room may be both a Rocket Engine and a Physically Powered Engine.
Rocket Engine
Thruster
A Jet Engine that is designed to use only stored Rocket Propellant to form a high speed propulsive jet in order to generate Thrust.
Wireless Telecommunication Network
Wireless Network
A Telecommunication Network that uses wireless connections to connect Telecommunication Network Nodes.
Pneumatic Motor
Air Motor
Compressed Air Engine
A Physically Powered Engine that converts potential energy stored in a portion of compressed air into mechanical energy.
x-Axis
A Coordinate System Axis designated by the variable 'x'.
Act of Information Processing
A Planned Act in which one or more input Information Content Entities are received, manipulated, transferred, or stored by an Agent.
Act of Military Training Instruction
An Act of Training Instruction performed by an Agent who realizes a capacity derived from the Agent's affiliation with some Military Organization by imparting knowledge of the tactics, techniques, and/or strategies of Military Operations to an Agent either directly or indirectly through some communication medium.
Rotational Motion
Rotation
A Motion Process in which an Object moves in a Circular or Elliptical Path around an Axis of Rotation.
Priority Measurement Information Content Entity
Criticality Measurement
Importance Measurement
Priority Measurement
An Ordinal Measurement Information Content Entity that is a measurement of the relative importance of an entity.
low, normal, high, urgent, or immediate priority
Act of Condoling
An Act of Expressive Communication performed by expressing sympathy or sorrow.
An Act of Prediction may involve the use of some or no relevant information. An Act of Prediction that utilizes relevant information may also be (or at least involve) an Act of Estimation. Hence, these two classes are not disjoint. Furthermore, neither class subsumes the other since estimates can be made about existing entities and not all predictions produce measurements (e.g. predicting that it will rain tomorrow).
Act of Prediction
A Planned Act that involves the generation of a Predictive Information Content entity that is intended to describe an uncertain possible future event, value, entity, or attribute of an entity.
a chess master predicting the next 8 moves his opponent will make
predicting that a particular stock will double in value over the next fiscal quarter
using sample exit polls data to predict the winners of an election
Predictions can only be made about things that are not yet the case (i.e. future things) and are further restricted to being about things that do not have a probability of either 1 (necessary) or 0 (impossible). For example, assuming that no organism is immortal, one cannot predict of a given organism that it will eventually die; however, one may predict uncertain things about the organism's eventual death, such as its precise cause or time.
Power Transformer Rectifier Unit
TRU
A Material Artifact that is designed to perform the functions of both a Rectifier and a Transformer.
Geospatial Position
A Fiat Point that is at or near the surface of the Earth and fixed according to some Geospatial Coordinate Reference System.
Measurement Unit of Volumetric Flow Rate
A Measurement Unit of Flow that is used as a standard for measurement of the rate at which volumes of fluid pass per unit time.
cubic metres per second, standard cubic centimeters per minute, cubic feet per second, gallons per minute
Warehouse
A Storage Facility that is designed to store commercial goods.
Portion of Gallium Arsenide
Portion of GaAs
A Portion of Material that is composed of a compound of the elements gallium and arsenic.
Disability
A Quality inhering in an Agent by virtue a physical or mental condition that limits the Agent's movements, senses, or activities.
Color
An Optical Property that inheres in a bearer in virtue of that bearer's Color Hue, Color Saturation and Color Brightness.
Examples: affirming, alleging, announcing, answering, attributing, claiming, classifying, concurring, confirming, conjecturing, denying, disagreeing, disclosing, disputing, identifying, informing, insisting, predicting, ranking, reporting, stating, stipulating
Act of Representative Communication
An Act of Communication that commits a speaker to the truth of the expressed proposition.
Pressure
A Force that is applied perpendicular to the surface of an Object per unit area over which that Force is distributed.
Weapon Manufacturing Facility
A Factory that is designed to produce or assemble weapons.
Spreadsheet
An Information Bearing Artifact that is designed to bear some Information Content Entity in an interactive, tabular form.
Nuclear Family
A Family composed of parents and their children.
Rectilinear Motion
Linear Motion
A Translational Motion process in which an Object moves along a straight path.
Wide
Broad
Fat
A Shape Quality inhering in a bearer in virtue of the bearer having a width or depth which is significantly larger in proportion to its length or height.
Essentially, webcasting is “broadcasting” over the Internet.
Webcast
Act of Webcasting
An Act of Communciation by Media transmitted to an audience over the Internet using streaming media technology to distribute a single content source that may be distributed live or on demand.
Axis of Rotation
Rotational Axis
A One-Dimensional Spatial Region defined by the line around which a spinning body rotates.
Citizen
A Person who is the bearer of some Citizen Role.
Act of Buying
An Act of Purchasing wherein a Financial Instrument is used by an Agent (the Buyer) to acquire ownership of a good from another Agent (the Seller).
Spatial Region Identifier
A Designative Information Content Entity that designates some Spatial Region.
The corresponding Wavelength range is 1–0.1 mm
Tremendously High Frequency
ITU Band Number 12
Submillimeter Band Frequency
Terahertz Radiation Frequency
An Electromagnetic Radiation Frequency of some Electromagnetic Wave that is between 300 GHz and 3 THz.
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Allegiance Role
A Role that inheres in an Agent by virtue of the support it has committed to provide to another Agent when that Agent is involved in a conflict.
Yaw Axis
Vertical Axis
An Axis of Rotation that passes through the center of an object's Mass from the top to the bottom and is perpendicular to the direction of the object's motion. For objects in Orbit, the Yaw Axis passes through the Barycenter of its Orbit.
Internal Combustion Engine
A Combustion Engine that is designed to have an internal Combustion Chamber where portions of Fuel and Oxidizer mixture are burned to generate thermal energy that is then converted into mechanical energy.
Gain of Specifically Dependent Continuant
A Gain of Dependent Continuant in which some Independent Continuant becomes the bearer of some Specifically Dependent Continuant.
A Person becomes pregnant (gain of quality), A person becomes forgetful (gain of disposition), A vehicle becomes amphibious (gain of function), A Person becomes a Database Administrator (gain of role).
The corresponding Wavelength range is 100,000–10,000 km
Extremely Low Frequency
ITU Band Number 1
A Radio Frequency that is between 3 and 30 Hz.
Combustion Chamber
Burner
Combustor
Flame Holder
A Material Artifact that is designed to wholly or partially bound an internal Site where a Combustion process is intended to occur.
Reference System
A Descriptive Information Content Entity that describes a set of standards for organizing and understanding data of the specified type or domain.
Temporal Region Identifier
A Designative Information Content Entity that designates some Temporal Region.
Park
An Anthropogenic Feature that is a bounded area of land, or water, usually in its natural or semi-natural (landscaped) state and set aside for some purpose, usually to do with recreation or conservation.
Fundamental Frequency
A Sound Frequency that is the lowest Frequency of a Sound Wave.
Act of Communication
A Planned Act in which some Information Content Entity is transferred from some Agent to Another.
Diffraction Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized by an Artifact participating in a diffraction event in which the Artifact forces a wave to bend around the corners of an obstacle or aperture into the region of geometrical shadow of the obstacle.
Iris
A Bodily Component that consists of the part of an Eye that is a pigmented, round, contractile membrane, suspended between the cornea and lens and perforated by the pupil, and which canonically regulates the amount of light entering the Eye.
Second-Order Administrative Region
A Government Domain that is a subdivision of a First-Order Administrative Region.
Measurement Unit of Geocoordinate
A Measurement Unit specifying the geospatial coordinates of a location.
Electrical Resistance Artifact Function
An Electrical Artifact Function that is realized in processes in which an Artifact opposes the flow of an electric current.
Government Organization
An Organization that is part of a Government and is responsible for the oversight or administration of specific governmental functions.
Spark Ignition System
An Ignition System that is designed to produce a spark in order to initiate an Ignition process.
Residential Facility
A Facility that is designed to house one or more Persons.
Speed Measurement Artifact Function
A Measurement Artifact Function that is realized during events in which an Artifact is used to measure the Speed of a specified object's or class of objects' Motion.
Oxidizer Artifact Function
A Chemical Reaction Artifact Function that is realized in a process in which electrons are removed from a reactant in a redox reaction.
Electron Microscope
A Microscope that is designed to use a beam of accelerated electrons to illuminate the target and produce a significantly enlarged image of the Object.
Square Waveform
A Waveform that is characterized by a square shape due to the near-instantaneous transitions between minimum and maximum Amplitudes of the Wave Cycle.
Anti-Microbial Artifact Function
A Pesticide Artifact Function that is realized in a process which causes illness in, or the death of, a microorganism.
Act of Publishing Mass Media Press Release
An Act of Mass Media Communication involving the preparation and public issuance of an official statement issued to one or more members of the media for the purpose of announcing newsworthy information.
Prosthetic Hand
A Prosthesis that is designed to replace a missing hand.
Biographical Life
An Act composed of the Life Events that occur during the course of existence of an Agent (i.e. Person or Organization).
Part Number
A Code Identifier that designates a type of part whose instances are designed to be part of some Artifact.
Computer
An Information Processing Artifact that is designed to execute an arbitrary set of arithmetic or logical operations automatically.
Nuclear Power Plant
A Thermal Power Plant that is designed to produce heat by means of a nuclear reactor, which is then converted to electrical energy.
Communication Reception Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized during events in which an Artifact is used to receive information that has been transmitted for the purpose of communiction.
Motor Vehicle Manufacturing Facility
A Factory that is designed to manufacture automobiles.
Sharp
A Shape Quality inhering in a bearer in virtue of the bearer having a fine point or thin edge.
A Gregorian Year begins concurrently with January 1, ends concurrently with December 31, and has an average duration of exactly 365.2425 Gregorian Days. The Gregorian Year is based upon the vernal equinox year. Unless otherwise stated, instances of Calendar Year are assumed to be instances of Gregorian Year since the Gregorian Calendar is the most widely used civil Calendar System.
Gregorian Year
A Calendar Year in the Gregorian Calendar.
Military Personnel Force
An Armed Force authorized to use deadly force, and weapons, to support the interests of the Government and some or all of its Citizens.
Armored Fighting Vehicle
A Ground Motor Vehicle that is designed to be armored and used to transport and support military personal in combat missions.
Railway Junction
A Land Transportation Artifact that is designed to enable a Train to switch between the tracks of two routes.
Codabar Barcode
A One-Dimensional Barcode that consists of numbers 0-9 and the characters -$:/.+ and is used by logistics and healthcare professionals.
Stable Orientation
A Stasis of Quality that holds during a Temporal Interval when an object maintains the same Spatial Orientation.
External Combustion Engine
A Combustion Engine that is designed to have an external Combustion Chamber where portions of Fuel and Oxidizer mixture are burned to generate thermal energy to heat the working fluid, which transfers energy to the Engine where it is converted into mechanical energy.
Missile Launch Site
A Military Facility that is designed for storing and launching missiles.
Act of Association
A Social Act wherein an Agent unites with some other Agent in a Planned Act, enterprise or business.
Simple Optical Lens
An Optical Lens consisting of a single piece of transparent material.
A Gregorian Day is twenty-four Hours in duration.
Gregorian Day
A Calendar Day in the Gregorian Calendar.
X-ray Microscope
A Microscope that is designed to use Electromagnetic Radiation in the soft X-ray band to produce a significantly enlarged image of the Object.
Enhancing Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in processes of intensifying, increainsg, or further improving the quality, value, or extent of some entity.
Act of Official Documentation
An Act of Declarative Communication in which an Agent records some information for official use by another Agent.
Black
A Color that lacks any hues as parts.
Watercraft
A Vehicle that is designed to convey passengers, cargo, or equipment from one location to another by water travel.
Temperature
A Quality that inheres in a bearer in virtue of its thermal energy.
Radioactive
A Quality that inheres in a bearer in virtue of that bearer exhibiting or being caused by radioactivity.
Commercial Organization
An Organization that is the bearer of a Commercial Role and whose primary objective is to make a profit from the provision of goods or services.
Measurement Unit of Energy
A Measurement Unit that is used as a standard for measurement of the Amount of work that is available in an object.
Weapon
A Material Artifact that is designed to destroy or inflict damage to structures or systems, or to kill or wound living things by creating specific lethal or nonlethal effects.
Nonlethal effects include all outcomes short of death or destruction. This is captured by the fact that Damaged Stasis and Wounded Stasis are defined in terms of impairment of the Independent Continuant that participates in them.
Circumference
A Perimeter that inheres in a circle or ellipse.
Triangular
A Shape Quality inhering in a bearer in virtue of it having exactly three angles and exactly three sides.
Motion Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in a process in which an entity changes its position with respect to time.
Comment: Remuneration normally consists of salary or hourly wages, but also applies to commission, stock options, fringe benefits, etc.
Act of Remuneration
An Act of Purchasing wherein a Financial Instrument is used by an Agent (the Employer) to compensate another Agent (the Employee) for the services they perform for the Employer.
Silver Color
A Color that resembles Grey with the added feature of having a metallic shine.
Collimation Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized by an Artifact participating in a collimation event in which the Artifact narrows a beam of particles or waves by either causing the spatial cross-section of the beam to become smaller or by causing the directions of motion of the beam's constituents to be aligned in a specifc direction of Motion.
Timekeeping Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized during events in which an Artifact is used to keep track of and report the current time.
Controlling air quality typically involves temperature control, oxygen replenishment, and removal of moisture, odor, smoke, heat, dust, airborne bacteria, carbon dioxide, and other undesired gases or particulates.
Environment Control System
A Material Artifact that is designed to control the temperature, air quality, or other feature of a Site that is relevant to the comfort or operation of entities located within that Site.
Compression Ignition System
An Ignition System that is designed to generate heat by compressing a portion of fuel and oxidizer mixture in order to initiate an Ignition process.
Act of Ceremony
A Social Act of ritual significance, performed on a special occasion.
Railway
A Land Transportation Artifact that is designed to enable Trains to transport passengers and goods.
Portion of Material
A Portion of Processed Material that was produced to be used as the input for another Act of Artifact Processing.
Coupling
A Material Artifact that is designed to connect two Shafts together at their ends for the purpose of transmitting power.
Fluorescence
A Luminescent Property that inheres in a bearer in virtue of that bearer's capacity to emit visible light while absorbing shorter wavelength radiation, but not after.
Local Administrative Region
Locality
A Government Domain that delimits a local Government.
ISSN Barcode
An EAN Barcode that is used to designate periodicals.
This class should be used to demarcate the start of the temporal interval (through the BFO 'occupies temporal region' property) that the Entity bears the Function.
Gain of Function
A Gain of Disposition in which some Independent Continuant becomes the bearer of some Function.
Act of Educational Training Instruction
An Act of Training Instruction performed by an Agent who realizes a capacity derived from the Agent's affiliation with some Educational Organization by imparting knowledge of a curriculum to an Agent either directly or indirectly through some communication medium.
Oblong
A Shape Quality inhering in a bearer in virtue of the bearer having an long thin shape with approximately parallel sides.
A Day begins at midnight GMT within the Modified Julian Date reference system. The Modified Julian Date (MJD) is related to the Julian Date (JD) by the formula: MJD = JD - 2400000.5
Modified Julian Date
A Time of Day as specified according to the Julian Calendar using the Modified Julian Date epoch.
Orientation Control Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized by processes in which some Artifact is used to control the Orientation of some object.
Armored Personnel Carrier
An Armored Fighting Vehicle that is designed to transport infantry to the battlefield but which are not usually designed to take part in a direct-fire battle.
Office Building
A Commercial Facility that is designed as an environment for conducting commercial, professional, or bureaucratic work.
Geospatial Coordinate Reference System
Geographic Coordinate System
A Spatial Reference System that is used to determine and identify the location of a point or object at or near the surface of the Earth.
Academic Degree
A Certificate issued by an Educational Organization to a Person to indicate that the Person has satisfactorily completed a course of study, or as an honorary recognition of the Person's achievement.
Warning Message
A Notification Message that is designed to bear an Information Content Entity that describes a possible or impending threat.
Geospatial Region
A Site that is at or near the surface of the Earth.
Fourth-Order Administrative Region
A Government Domain that is a subdivision of a Third-Order Administrative Region.
Curved
A Shape Quality inhering in a bearer in virtue of the bearer having borders which are smoothly rounded.
Portion of Cash
A Financial Instrument that is designed to be a ready medium of exchange.
Objective
A Directive Information Content Entity that prescribes some projected state that some Agent intends to achieve.
Fuel Cell
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.
A Fuel Cell differs from a Battery in that it requires a continuous source of fuel and oxygen to sustain the chemical reaction, whereas a Battery only uses chemicals already stored inside it.
Cuboidal
A Three Dimensional Shape that inheres in a bearer in virtue of it having six Rectangular faces.
Public Safety Facility
A Facility that is designed for the prevention of and protection from events that could endanger, injure, or damage the general public.
Life Support Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized during events in which an Artifact materially affects an organism, where this causes that organism to continue living in a situation where death would otherwise occur.
Research and Development Artifact Function
A Service Artifact Function that is realized in processes of producing new knowledge or of devising new applications of existing knowledge.
Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging Artifact Function
A Radar Imaging Artifact Function that inheres in Artifacts that are designed to produce visual representations of entities using the motion of a radar antenna over a targeted region to create a synthetic aperture.
Military Base
A Military Facility that is designed to shelter military equipment and personnel and to facilitate training and operations.
Concave Shape
A Shape Quality that inheres in a bearer in virtue of the bearer having one or more cavities, such that at least one line connecting a pair of points on the surface of the bearer will lie outside.
Commercial Role
A Role that inheres in an Organization by virtue of its establishment as a for-profit business.
Neutral Role
An Allegiance Role that inheres in an Agent by virtue of that Agent not performing or being committed to performing Acts that have as their Objective to either support or undermine the Objectives of an Agent or Group of Agents involved in some conflict.
Geospatial Location
A Geospatial Region that is at which an Entity or Event is located.
Tripod
A Material Artifact that consists of three legs and a platform that joins them and which is designed to support the weight and maintain the stability of objects that are attached to or rested on the platform.
High Density Residential Area
A Populated Place which is characterized by densely contained multiple-unit living structures.
X-ray Frequency
An Electromagnetic Radiation Frequency of some Electromagnetic Wave that is between 30 petahertz and 30 exahertz.
Detonating Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in processes of combustion involving a supersonic exothermic front accelerating through a medium that eventually drives a shock front propagating directly in front of it.
Email Messaging
Act of Emailing
An Act of Communication by Media in which text-based communication occurs between two or more people using personal computers or other devices using some Email Client Software conveyed over the Internet.
Code List
A List that contains an ordered sequence of Information Bearing Entities that carry Code Identifiers.
Serrated
A Shape Quality inhering in a bearer in virtue of the bearer having multiple sharp points along a edge.
Radio Communication Interference Artifact Function
A Communication Interference Artifact Function that is realized during events in which an Artifact is used to interfere with the transmission of information via radio waves.
Natural Language
A Language that is developed and evolves through use and repetition, rather than through conscious planning or premeditation.
Measurement Unit of Force
A Measurement Unit that is used as a standard for measurement of interactions in which the Motion or Velocity of an object is changed, unless the interaction is opposed.
A Julian Day begins at noon Universal Time and is twenty-four Hours in duration.
Julian Day
A Calendar Day in the Julian Calendar.
Wire Antenna
A Radio Antenna that consists primarily of a length of wire.
Eye
A Bodily Component that consists of an organ that canonically affords the Agent it is part of with the ability to receive visual stimuli necessary for sight.
Act of Financial Withdrawal
An Act of Financial Instrument Use wherein a Financial Instrument is transferred by an Agent to another Agent (the Depositor) from an account created by an earlier Act of Financial Deposit performed by the Depositor.
Measurement Unit of Area Moment of Inertia
Measurement Unit of Second Area Moment
A Measurement Unit that is used as a standard for measurement of the distribution of Mass of an object with respect to an axis.
A measure of an object’s resistance to bending or deflection.
Power
A Process Profile that is characterized by the rate of Work, or Energy consumed, done in a given time period.
Optical Processing Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized by an Artifact participating in a visible light processing event.
Center of Mass
A Zero-Dimensional Spatial Region that is the point where the weighted position vectors of the distributed Mass of a Material Entity relative to this point sum to zero.
Contractor Role
A Role that inheres in an Agent or Group of Agents by virtue of that Agent or Group of Agents entering into a Contract to provide materials or labor to perform a service or complete a task.
A Contractor Role differs from an Occupation Role in at least two ways. First, the Contract that binds the two parties together is not one of employment. Second, a Contractor Role is occupationally neutral in that an Agent can be contracted to perform any number of Occupational Roles.
Ethnic Group
A Group of Persons who identify with one another based on one or more shared inherited characteristics such as language, ancestry, nationality, culture, customs, religion, or social experiences.
Near Ultraviolet Light Frequency
An Ultraviolet Light Frequency that is between 750 terahertz and 3 petahertz.
Service Provider
An Organization whose purpose is to provide a service to other Agents.
Mosque
A Religious Facility that is designed for Islamic worship and prayer.
Act of Planning
A Planned Act that involves making a Plan to achieve some specified Objective.
Radiation Emissivity
An Electromagnetic Radiation Property that inheres in a bearer in virtue of the capacity of that bearer to emit electromagnetic radiation of a given frequency.
Act of Tool Use
An Act of Artifact Employment in which some Agent uses some Tool.
Transverse Wave Profile
Transverse Wave
A Wave Process Profile in which the displacement of participating particles is perpendicular to the direction of the Wave Process' propogation.
Act of Vehicle Use
An Act of Artifact Employment in which some Agent uses some Vehicle.
Pneumatic Power Source
A Power Source that is designed to generate, control, or transmit power by means of compressed air or compressed inert gases.
Act of Communication by Media
An Act of Communication in which some Artifact is used to transfer an Information Bearing Entity from sender(s) to receiver(s).
Measurement Unit of Currency
A Measurement Unit used in measurements of financial values.
U.S. Dollar, Euro, Yuan, South African Rand
The corresponding Wavelength range is 10–1 mm
Extremely High Frequency
ITU Band Number 11
Millimeter Band Frequency
A Microwave Frequency that is between 30 and 300 GHz.
Act of Departure
An Act of Location Change that consists of the participating entity leaving its starting location such that the larger Act of Location Change is initiated.
Act of Assassination
An Act of Murder of a prominent person.
Pulsejet Engine
Pulse Jet
Pulsejet
An Air-Breathing Jet Engine that is capable of operating statically and uses intermittent (pulsing) Combustion of the fuel-oxidizer mixture before expelling the exhaust out through the rear Propelling Nozzle to generate Thrust.
Loudness
A Sound Process Profile that is characterized by the amplitude and total energy of translated sound waves, typically on a continuum from soft to loud.
Air Conditioning Unit
AC Unit
A Cooling System that is designed to remove excess heat and humidity from the air in an enclosed space.
Transparent
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.
Gamma-ray Telescope
A Telescope that is designed to aid in the observation of spatially distant Objects by means of collecting and focusing Gamma-rays to form an enhanced image of the Object.
Measurement Unit of Rotational Inertia
Measurement Unit of Moment of Inertia
Measurement Unit of Rotational Mass
A Measurement Unit that is used as a standard for measurement of the distribution of Mass of an object with respect to its axis of rotation.
A measure of an object’s resistance to change in its state of rotation.
White
A Color of maximum brightness, the color of objects that reflect nearly all wavelengths of the visible light spectrum, thus considered achromatic.
Date Identifier
Day Identifier
A Temporal Interval Identifier that designates some Day.
Sound waves with frequencies in this range are typically audible to humans.
Sonic Frequency
Audible Frequency
A Sound Frequency that is between 20 Hz and 20 kHz.
Communications Facility
A Facility that is designed to support processes of receiving or transmitting information.
Government of a Country
A Government that has legitimate authority within and is delimited by a Domain of a Country.
Some (most) jet engines utilize turbines, but some do not. Most rocket engines do not utilize turbines, but some do.
Jet Engine
A Reaction Engine that discharges a fast moving jet that generates Thrust by jet propulsion.
Cutting Artifact Function
A Damaging Artifact Function that is realized in a process in which the structural integrity of an entity is impaired by being opened or divided.
Decrease of Quality
A Decrease of Specifically Dependent Continuant in which some Independent Continuant has a decrease of some Quality that it bears.
Weight Loss, Decreasing Temperature, decreasing color intensity, loss of structural integrity
Bond Certificate
A Bond that consists of a Certificate.
Financial Instrument
A Material Artifact that is designed to be a tradeable asset and that is legally sanctioned.
Defoliant Artifact Function
An Herbicide Artifact Function that is realized in a process that causes a plant to lose its leaves.
Count Measurement Information Content Entity
A Ratio Measurement Information Content Entity that is a measurement of the number of members of some aggregate.
Temporal Instant Identifier
Zero-Dimensional Temporal Region Identifier
A Temporal Region Identifier that designates some Temporal Instant.
Diameter
A One Dimensional Extent that inheres in a circle in virtue of the extent of a straight line that passes through the center of the circle and starts and ends on the circle's boundary.
Loss of Generically Dependent Continuant
A Loss of Dependent Continuant in which some Independent Continuant ceases to be the carrier of some Generically Dependent Continuant.
Decrease of Disposition
A Decrease of Realizable Entity in which some Independent Continuant has a decrease of some Disposition it bears.
Although people speak of targeting a process, say, a parade, what in fact are being targeted are the material participants of that process. The disruption or ceasing of the process is the objective of some plan, but not technically a target. Only material things can be targeted for action. Even if some dependent entity is described as being the target, the material thing for which that dependent entity depends is the object of a targeting process.
Target
A Material Entity that is the object of an Act of Targeting.
Seat of Local Government
City Hall
Town Hall
A Government Building that is designed for the administration of a local community.
Unplanned Act
Unintentional Act
An Act in which at least one Agent plays a causative role and which is not prescribed by some Objective held by any of the Agents.
Telescope
An Imaging Instrument that is designed to aid in the observation of spatially distant Objects by means of collecting and focusing Electromagnetic Radiation to form an enhanced image of the Object.
Vulnerability | Definition of Vulnerability by Oxford Dictionary on Lexico.Com Also Meaning of Vulnerability. https://web.archive.org/web/20210118111731/https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/vulnerability. Accessed 19 Dec. 2022.
Vulnerability
A Disrupting Disposition the realization of which would disrupt a process that the bearer of the Disrupting Disposition has an interest in.
This is defined class. A Vulnerability is indexed by the interest_in object property. A disposition can be a Vulnerability according to one index and not a Vulnerability according to another index.
Water Transportation Artifact
A Transportation Artifact that is fixed in place and designed to bear a Function, the realization of which is sometimes part of a process of moving Vehicles and Agents from one location to another via water.
Morning
A Temporal Interval that consists of the temporal regions between when the sun dawns (approximately 6:00am) and reaches its apex (approximately 12:00pm).
Organism
An Object that is an Animal or Plant.
Explosive Weapon
Bomb
A Weapon that is designed to inflict harm, damage, or incapacity by means of a violent release of energy caused by the exothermic reaction of an explosive material.
Process Prohibition
A Process Regulation that prohibits some Process.
Gain of Dependent Continuant
A Change in which an Independent Continuant becomes the bearer or carrier of some Dependent Continuant.
Enhanced Stasis
Enhanced
A Stasis of Specifically Dependent Continuant in which some Independent Continuant bears a Quality or Realizable Entity that has undergone improvement (i.e., an increase or gain) due to a previous action or event such that the Independent Continuant is now of greater value, usefulness, or functionality.
Depending on the nature of the Flight or Mission, the Payload of a Vehicle may include cargo, passengers, flight crew, munitions, scientific instruments or experiments, or other equipment. Extra fuel, when optionally carried, is also considered part of the payload.
Payload
A Material Entity that is transported by a Vehicle during an Act of Location Change for the purpose of being delivered to or performing one or more functions at a predefined location.
In each case, the Payload is what provides the immediate reason for performing the Act of Location Change (e.g. transporting the passengers of a commercial airline flight to their destination; transporting food, fuel, oxygen, research equipment, and spare parts to the International Space Station; or conveying an array of sensors, cameras, and communications systems so they can operate during a Sun-Synchronous Earth Orbit).
Stasis of Non-Mission Capable
A Stasis of Mission Capability during which the participating Continuant is not capable of performing any of its primary functions for the specified Mission.
Visible Light Reflection Process
A Wave Process in which an Electromagnetic Wave with a Visible Light Frequency is reflected off a portion of matter.
QR Code
A Two-Dimensional Barcode that consists of numeric, alphanumeric, binary, or kanji information and is used primarily for tracking and marketing.
Cone Shape
A Three Dimensional Shape that inheres in a bearer in virtue of it having a Round base that tapers smoothly to an apex.
Dam
A Material Artifact that is designed to impound surface water or underground streams.
Animal
An Organism that is multicellular, eukaryotic, heterotrophic, and capable of motility for part of its life.
Hydrographic Feature
A Geographic Feature associated with water.
Educational Organization
An Organization whose primary purpose is to provide training or otherwise facilitate learning or the acquisition of knowledge, Skills, values, beliefs, or habits.
Cube Shape
A Cuboidal shape inhering in a bearer in virtue of it having six Square faces.
Act of Artifact Employment
A Planned Act of using an Artifact.
This is a general term that applies to both military and civilian activities, such as the Geospatial Region within which a company conducts its business.
Operational Area
A Geospatial Location in which an Agent conducts some activity.
Organization Capability
An Agent Capability that inheres in an Organization to the extent of that Organization's capacity to realize it in Intentional Acts of a certain type.
Sensor
A Transducer that is designed to convert incoming energy into a output signal which reliably corresponds to changes in that energy.
Force
A Process Profile that is the rate of change of an object's Momentum, is the product of an object's Mass and Acceleration with respect to an inertial frame of reference, and is measured in units of Newtons (N).
Article of Solid Waste
A Portion of Waste Material that has a low liquid content.
Sound Production
Sound Production Process
A Wave Production Process that produces a Sound Wave.
Act of Religious Training Acquisition
An Act of Training Acquisition performed by an Agent by acquiring knowledge of the tenets and/or practices of a religion from an Agent or communication medium that realizes a capacity derived from its affiliation with a Religious Organization.
Environmental Feature
A Material Entity that is either a natural or man-made feature of the environment.
Quality Specification
A Directive Information Content Entity that prescribes some Quality.
Scalp
A Bodily Component that consists of the skin covering the top of the head of a human or other animal.
Power Rectifier
A Material Artifact that is designed to convert alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC).
Sloped
A Shape Quality inhering in a bearer in virtue of the bearer having a horizontal border which is not level.
Thin
Narrow
Slender
A Shape Quality inhering in a bearer in virtue of the bearer having a width or depth which is significantly smaller in proportion to its length or height.
Sine Waveform
Sinusoidal Waveform
A Waveform that is characterized by a smooth curved shape due to the continuous non-linear transitions between minimum and maximum Amplitudes of the Wave Cycle.
Tool
A Material Artifact that is designed to assist in the performance of manual or mechanical work and not to be consumed in that process.
Code 93 Barcode
A One-Dimensional Barcode that consists of up to 93 ASCII characters and is used in logistics to identify packages in retail inventory, lable electornic components, and provide supplementary delivery information.
Motel
A Hotel that is designed to accommodate motor vehicles along with their occupants.
An Act of Position Change does not entail a change of location.
Act of Position Change
An Act of Motion in which the position (i.e. the orientation, alignment, or arrangement) of some Object or of one or more of an Object's parts is changed by some Agent.
swivelling your office chair to face the window
Sawtooth Waveform
A Waveform that is characterized by a sawtooth shape due to the continuous linear transition from minimum to maximum Amplitudes followed by a near-instantaneous transition from the maximum to minimum Amplitudes of the Wave Cycle.
Controllable Pitch Propeller
Variable-Pitch Propeller
A Propeller whose blades are designed to be alterable by rotating the blades about their vertical axis by means of mechanical or hydraulic arrangement.
Ally Role
An Allegiance Role that inheres in an Agent in virtue of that Agent's commitment to perform Acts that support the Objectives of a particular Agent or Group of Agents.
Act of Mass Media Communication
An Act of Communication intended to reach a large audience using a medium such as the internet, television, radio, newspaper, and magazine.
Julian Date Fraction
Julian Date Time Identifier
Julian Day Fraction
A Decimal Time of Day Identifier that designates an approximate Temporal Instant that is part of some Julian Day.
Convex Shape
A Shape Quality that inheres in a bearer in virtue of the bearer not having a cavity, such that no line connecting a pair of points on the surface of the bearer will lie outside.
Artifact Location
A Site that is the location of some Artifact.
'Deviation Measurement Information Content Entity' and 'Veracity Measurement Information Content Entity' are complementary notions. Deviation is a measure of whether reality conforms to an ICE (e.g., a plan or prediction), whereas Veracity is a measure of whether a Descriptive ICE conforms to reality.
Note, the term 'accuracy' is avoided due to its ambiguity between: correctness-of-performance (see: 'Reliability Measurement Information Content Entity'), correctness-of-information ('Veracity Measurement Information Content Entity'), and adherance-to-expectations (see: 'Deviation Measurement Information Content Entity').
Veracity Measurement Information Content Entity
Accuracy of Information
Trueness Measurement
Veracity Measurement
A Measurement Information Content Entity that is a measurement of the extent to which a description conforms to the reality it describes.
Portion of Propellant
A Portion of Material that is designed to be used as an input in a Propulsion Process to produce Thrust.
Ignition Process
Ignition
A Natural Process that initiates a Combustion process.
Act of Cargo Transportation
An Act of Location Change involving the movement of manufactured goods through some Transportation Agent.
JAN-13 Barcode
An EAN Barcode that consists of 13 numerical digits and is used primarily in Japan to designate products at the point of sale.
Instrument Display Panel
An Information Bearing Artifact that is designed to bear information about some Artifact that is derived by the instrumentation Sensors of that Artifact.
Valve
A Fluid Control Artifact that is designed to regulate, direct, or control the flow of fluid by opening, closing, or partially obstructing the fluid from moving along a passageway.
Interpersonal Relationship Role
A Role that inheres in a Person in virtue of the obligations, expectations, or social norms that govern that Person's Intentional Acts within the context of a relationship with another Person.
Legal Artifact Function
A Service Artifact Function that is realized in processes of giving legal advice to clients drafting legal documents for clients and representing clients in legal negotiations and court proceedings such as lawsuits.
Imaging Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that inheres in Artifacts that are designed to produce visual representations of entities.
ITF Barcode
A One-Dimensional Barcode that consists of an even number of numerical characters and is used primarily in packaging and distribution.
Navigation Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized during events in which an Artifact is used to determine the precise location of itself or another object and plan a route to a specified destination.
Maximum Ordinal Measurement Information Content Entity
An Ordinal Measurement Information Content Entity that is a measurement of some entity in virtue of it being the largest or having the greatest amount relative to a nominally described set of like entities.
Abbreviated Name
A Designative Name that is a shortened form of a Proper Name.
Trucks vary greatly in their size and power -- ranging from small ultra-light trucks to enormous heavy trucks. Trucks also vary greatly in their configurations -- ranging from very basic flatbeds or box trucks to highly specialized cargo carriers. Trucks may also be configured to mount specialized equipment, such as in the case of fire trucks, concrete mixers, and suction excavators.
Truck
A Ground Motor Vehicle that is designed to be used to transport cargo.
Thickness
A Depth that inheres in a bearer in virtue of it extending inward through an object.
Financial Value
A quality that inheres in an independent continuant to the degree that that independent continuant can serve as a medium of exchange in an economic system at a particular time.
This class should be used to demarcate the start of the temporal interval (through the BFO 'occupies temporal region' property) that the Entity bears the Disposition.
Gain of Disposition
A Gain of Realizable Entity in which some Independent Continuant becomes the bearer of some Disposition.
Ultraviolet Light Frequency
An Electromagnetic Radiation Frequency of some Electromagnetic Wave that is between 750 terahertz and 30 petahertz.
Increase of Realizable Entity
An Increase of Specifically Dependent Continuant in which some Independent Continuant has an increase of some Realizable Entity that it bears.
Act of Weapon Use
An Act of Artifact Employment in which some Agent uses some Weapon.
Loss of Role
A Loss of Realizable Entity in which some Independent Continuant ceases to be the bearer of some Role.
'Matter' here can also refer to the inertial energy of an object.
Typical unit of measure is the kilogram or pound.
Mass
A Quality that inheres in a bearer in virtue of the amount of matter in that bearer.
Act of Encounter
An Act of Association wherein two or more Persons meet in a casual or unplanned manner.
http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=encounter (Sense Key: Encounter%2:38:00)
Religion
An Information Content Entity that consists of a collection of claims about the meaning or origin of existence or about the existence or nature of one or more deities, an afterlife, or spiritual or sacred entities, and which is accepted as true by an Agent or Group of Agents.
Infrared Camera
Thermal Imaging Camera
Thermographic Camera
A Camera that is designed to form and record an image generated from infrared radiation.
Ground Vehicle
A Vehicle that is designed to convey passengers, cargo, or equipment from one location to another by some form of ground travel.
Week
A Temporal Interval that is equal to seven consecutive Days.
Radiopacity
Radiodensity
An Opacity that inheres in a bearer in virtue of its capacity to allow or prevent X-rays to pass through it.
Inverse Sawtooth Waveform
A Waveform that is characterized by a sawtooth shape due to the continuous linear transition from maximum to minimum Amplitudes followed by a near-instantaneous transition from the minimum to maximum Amplitudes of the Wave Cycle.
Stasis of Fully Mission Capable
A Stasis of Mission Capability during which the participating Continuant is capable of performing all of its primary functions for the specified Mission.
Impact Shielding Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized during events in which an Artifact reduces the damage caused to the shielded object by an impact with another object.
Report
A Document that is designed to bear some specific Information Content Entity that conveys an account of some event, situation, or the result of some observation or inquiry.
Nozzle Throat
A Fluid Control Artifact that consists of the narrowest portion of a Nozzle that is designed to converge the flow of fluid in order to increase the Velocity of the flow.
Since predictions are inherently about not-yet-existant things, the Modal Relation Ontology term 'describes' (i.e. mro:describes) should be used (instead of the standard cco:describes) to relate instances of Predictive Information Content Entity to the entities they are about.
Predictive Information Content Entity
Prediction
Prediction Information Content Entity
A Descriptive Information Content Entity that describes an uncertain future event.
Infrastructure Element
A Material Entity that bears an Infrastructure Role.
Electromagnetic Radiation Property
A Disposition that inheres in an bearer in virtue of how that bearer interacts with electromagnetic radiation.
Deception Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in processes which misinform or mislead some other entity.
Universal Time Reference System
A Solar Time Reference System that is based on the average speed of the Earth's rotation and which uses the prime meridian at 0° longitude as a reference point.
Material Territory of a Country
The portions of lithosphere, hydrosphere, or atmosphere that together exactly occupy a The Domain of a Country.
Magnetism
A Disposition that is realized when its bearer exerts a magnetic force on another entity.
When an object is "weighed", in the typical case, it is done so by taking into account the local force of gravity to determine the object's mass, whose standard of measure is the kilogram. The actual unit of measure of weight is the newton.
Weight
A Quality that inheres in some material entity with a mass in virtue of its location in some gravitational field.
Steam Engine
An External Combustion Engine that is designed to use steam as its working fluid.
Refraction Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized by an Artifact participating in a refraction event in which the Artifact causes a change in direction of wave propagation due to a change in its transmission medium.
Note that, while most if not all Acts of Appraisal involve some estimating and many Acts of Estimation involve some appraising (i.e. these classes are not disjoint), neither class subsumes the other. For example, some Acts of Appraisal (e.g. a tax assessor appraising the value of a building) impart a normative element to the measured value while others (e.g. a gustatory appraisal that fresh green beans taste better than canned green beans) involve complete information. Furthermore, many Acts of Estimation (e.g. estimating the height of a tree) are concerned solely with determining a numerical value (as opposed to the nature, value, importance, condition, or quality).
Act of Appraisal
An Act of Measuring that involves evaluating, assessing, estimating, or judging the nature, value, importance, condition, or quality of something or someone.
a food critic rating the quality of a restaurant's ambiance, service, and food
a mechanic assessing whether a damaged vehicle is repairable
an insurance agent appraising the financial value of a building
In the context of an Act of Appraisal, the terms 'value', 'condition', and 'quality' do not have the same meanings as their counterparts that are defined in the Common Core Ontologies. For example, a knife may be appraised to be of high quality if it is sharp and sturdy or to be of inferior quality if it is dull or fragile.
Portion of Gaseous Propellant
A Portion of Propellant that is stored in a gaseous state.
Heat Engine
An Engine that is designed to convert thermal energy into mechanical energy.
Mine
A Facility that is designed to support the extraction of minerals or other geological materials from an orebody, lode, vein, seam, reef, or placer deposit within the earth.
Email Message
A Message that is transmitted to the recipient's Email Box.
Entertainment Facility
A Facility that is designed to host activities that are intended to hold the interest of, or give pleasure or delight to, an audience.
Gain of Realizable Entity
A Gain of Specifically Dependent Continuant in which some Independent Continuant becomes the bearer of some Realizable Entity.
An informant becomes unreliable (disposition), A person begins to speak French (function), a person becomes a welder (role).
The corresponding Wavelength range is 10–1 km
Low Frequency
ITU Band Number 5
A Radio Frequency that is between 30 and 300 kHz.
Oscillation is often thought of in the sense of motion, e.g., a swinging clock pendulum. However, the repetitive variation in location around a central point is technically a process of vibration, sometimes referred to as mechanical oscillation. Use the term Vibration Motion for those cases.
Oscillation Process
Oscillation
A Change in which the dependent entity alternates between two or more stases.
Permanent Resident
A person with a Permanent Resident Role.
Highway
A Road that is designed to enable Ground Vehicles to travel between relatively major destinations.
Organization Member
A Person who is affiliated with some Organization by being a member of that Organization.
Color Brightness
Color Intensity
An Optical Property that inheres in a bearer in virtue of its capacity to reflect or radiate light.
Non-Name Identifier
Identifier
A Designative Information Content Entity that consists of a string of characters that designates an entity within a specified namespace or context, is not a Designative Name, may be automatically or randomly generated, and typically has no preexisting cultural or social significance.
Ground Moving Target Indication Artifact Function
A Moving Target Indication Artifact Function that inheres in Artifacts that are designed to identify and track entities moving on or near the ground.
Containing Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in a process in which one entity contains another.
Decoy
A Material Artifact that is designed to distract or conceal what an individual or group might be looking for.
Algorithm
A Directive Information Content Entity that prescribes some Process and contains a finite sequence of unambiguous instructions in order to achieve some Objective.
Act of Terrorism
An Act of Violence which creates fear and which is prescribed by religious, political or ideological objectives, and which deliberately target or disregard the safety of civilians and are committed by members of non-government organizations.
Mailing Facility
A Facility that is designed for the systematic physical transportation of documents and packages.
Radiological Weapon
A Weapon that is designed to inflict harm, damage, or incapacity by means of releasing radioactive material.
Distance Measurement Artifact Function
A Measurement Artifact Function that is realized during events in which an Artifact is used to measure the spatial Distance to a specified object or class of objects.
Missile Launcher
A Projectile Launcher that is designed to launch one or more Precision-Guided Missiles.
Measurement Unit of Torque
Measurement Unit of Moment of Force
Measurement Unit of Rotational Force
A Measurement Unit that is used as a standard for measurement of the rate of change of angular momentum of an object.
Effect
Consequence
A Process that follows and is caused by some previous Process.
Government Artifact Function
A Service Artifact Function that is realized in processes in which public policy is administered and the actions of its members are directed.
Material Territory of a Government Domain
The portions of lithosphere, hydrosphere, or atmosphere that together exactly occupy a Government Domain
Power Transmission Artifact
A Material Artifact that is designed to transfer and regulate Power flow from a Power Source to an application point.
Radio Relay Station
A Communications Facility that is designed to support the receiving and re-transmitting of radio signals.
Cleaning Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in processes in which some Artifact is used to remove foreign objects from another object.
Neutral Person
A Person who is the bearer of some Neutral Role.
Combat Outpost
A Military Facility that is designed to support the conduction of combat operations of limited scope or size.
Battery Terminal
A Material Artifact that is designed to connect a load or charger to a single or multiple-cell Battery.
Distance Measurement Information Content Entity
A Ratio Measurement Information Content Entity that is a measurement of a One-Dimensional Extent inhering in some Site that is externally connected to two Independent Continuants.
Displacement (vector) is the shortest possible distance (scalar) between two points. Further thought is needed to adequately handle measurements of distance traveled along a path, e.g., a circuitous path or an arc (such as the surface of a planet), versus the simple case of a direct, straight line between two points.
Distance is a measure between two reference points, which are located on or in, or in some manner part of, the two obejcts for which the length of the extent between is sought. For exmple, the center point of the indentation of a ball in the sand and the edge of the foul line, the forwardmost point on a car's bumper and the closest point on the 2-dimensional plane that serves as the fiat boundary of a crosswalk, the center of an antenna array and closest point on ground.
Distribution Port
A Port that is designed with the cargo handling equipment necessary for the loading and unloading of Watercraft
Anti-Bacterial Artifact Function
An Anti-Microbial Artifact Function that is realized in a process which causes harm to, or the death of, some bacterium.
The corresponding Wavelength range is 10,000–1,000 km
Super Low Frequency
ITU Band Number 2
A Radio Frequency that is between 30 and 300 Hz.
Prosthetic Foot
A Prosthesis that is designed to replace a missing foot.
Calendar Year
A Year that begins and ends concurrently with the Days specified by a Calendar System to be the first and last Days of the Year.
Sound Wave Process
A Mechanical Wave Process of Pressure and displacement that is parallel to the propogation direction of the Wave Process through a medium.
Act of Inhabitancy
A Planned Act in which a Person lives at a Site for a period of time that may be as short as 1 day/night or as long as the Person's entire life.
Product Transport Facility
A Facility that is designed to transport some product.
Voltage Regulating Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized by processes in which some Artifact is used to cause a change in the voltage magnitude between the sending and receiving end of an electrical component.
Attitude Control Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized by an Artifact participating in an attitude control process.
Medical Depot
A Storage Facility that is designed to store medical supplies.
External Navigation Lighting System
A Lighting System that is designed to be attached to some Vehicle and to emit colored light in order to signal that Vehicle's position, heading, and status.
Mirror
An Optical Instrument that is designed to reflect light that has a wavelength within a given range and is incident on its relflecting surface such that the reflected light maintains most of the characteristics of the original light.
Diminutive Name
An Abbreviated Name that is a familiar form of a Proper Name.
"Familiar form of a Proper Name" means: that the name is (originally) a short, affectionate version of the fuller name, used (originally) by family or friends.
Act of Contract Formation
An Act of Promising having a lawful object entered into voluntarily by two or more agents with legal capacity, each of whom intends to create one or more legal obligations between them.
Government Domain Border
A Geospatial Boundary that is a boundary of some Government Domain.
Designative Information Content Entity
Designative ICE
An Information Content Entity that consists of a set of symbols that denote some Entity.
Act of Training Acquisition
An Act of Training performed by an Agent by acquiring knowledge from another Agent.
Turbofan Air-Breathing Jet Engine
An Air-Breathing Jet Engine that uses a Turbofan, which consists of a Turbine and a Fan.
Switch Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in a process of breaking an electric circuit by interrupting the current or diverting it from one conductor to another.
Telecommunication Instrument
A Communication Instrument that is designed for use by some Agent in some Act of Communication where the recipient of that communication is potentially a significant distance away from the Agent.
Fuel Tank
A Container that is designed to store a Portion of Fuel.
Every probability measurement is made within a particular context given certain background assumptions.
Probability Measurement Information Content Entity
Likelihood Measurement
Probability Measurement
A Measurement Information Content Entity that is a measurement of the likelihood that a Process or Process Aggregate occurs.
Mass Specification
A Quality Specification that prescribes the Amount of Mass that a Material Entity should have.
Nozzle Mouth
A Fluid Control Artifact that consists of the portion of a Nozzle at the end that is designed to be where the flow of fluid exits the Nozzle.
Radiolucent
Hypodense
Transradiance
A Radiopacity that inheres in a bearer in virtue of its capacity to permit most X-rays to pass through it.
Ideology
An Information Content Entity that consists of a collection of claims about how some part of the world is or should be and which is accepted as true by an Agent or Group of Agents such that it forms the basis of their beliefs, goals, expectations, and motivations.
Enemy Person
A Person who is the bearer of some Enemy Role.
By increasing the Exhaust Velocity of the gas, the Nozzle increases the Thrust generated.
Convergent-Divergent Nozzle
CD Nozzle
de Laval Nozzle
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.
Afternoon
A Temporal Interval that consists of the temporal regions between when the sun is at its apex (approximately 12:00pm) and when it sets (approximately 6:00pm).
Computer Network
Data Network
A Telecommunication Network that is designed to allow the exchange of data between two or more computers connected to the network.
Wire Receiver
A Radio Receiver that uses a Wire Antenna to intercept radio signals.
Image
An Information Bearing Artifact that is designed to carry an Information Content Entity that represents some entity owing to a visual isomorphism between the carrying artifact and the entity.
System Clock
A Timekeeping Instrument that is part of a computer an is designed to issue a steady high-frequency signal that is used to synchronize all of the computer's internal components.
Tunnel
A Land Transportation Artifact that is designed to enable Ground Vehicles to travel underneath a surrounding soil, earth, or rock formation.
Power Transmission Line
A Product Transport Facility that is designed to transmit electricity over distance via a system of above ground wires including their supports.
Terminal Board
A Material Artifact that is designed to join electrical terminations and create an electrical circuit by means of a block which connects individual wires without a splice or physically joining the ends.
Measurement Unit of Angle
A Measurement Unit that is used as a standard for measurement of the angle between two lines or planes in relation to a vertex.
Water Tower
A Facility that is the bearer of functions realized in processes of storing water in an elevated container.
Visual Prosthesis
Bionic Eye
An Artificial Eye that is designed to replace a missing eye, which performs the function of an eye.
Command Post Facility
A Military Facility that is designed to support the command and control of Military Operations or Forces.
Semi-automatic Pistol
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.
Acceleration
A Process Profile that is the rate of change of the Velocity of an object.
Vehicle
A Material Artifact that is designed to facilitate the movement of material entities from one location to another by conveying them there.
Horn Antenna
Microwave Horn
A Radio Antenna that consists of a flaring metal waveguide shaped like a horn to direct radio waves in a beam and can be used on its own or as a feeder for larger antenna structures, such as Parabolic Antennas.
Prosthesis
A Medical Artifact that is designed to replace a missing body part.
Electric Battery
Battery
An Electrical Power Source that is designed to produce electric power by converting chemical energy to electrical energy.
Fossil Fuel Power Plant
An Electric Power Station that is designed to convert fossil fuels (e.g. coal, natural gas, or petroleum) into electrical energy.
Village
A Local Administrative Region in which a human population permanently resides that is typically larger than the population of a hamlet but smaller than that of a Town.
Counterfeit Instrument
A Material Artifact that is designed to be a fake replica of some genuine Artifact.
Cryogenic Storage Dewar
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.
Polarizing Prism
A Prism designed to split a beam of light entering the Prism into components of varying polarization.
Sea Level
A Fiat Surface that divides the spheroid composed of Earth and its atmosphere at some point that corresponds to the mean level of calm water in the Earth’s oceans.
Vehicle Control System
A Control System that is designed to enable some Agent to control some Vehicle.
Parabolic Antenna
Dish Antenna
Parabolic Dish
A Radio Antenna that uses a parabolic reflector to direct or receive radio waves and has a very high gain.
Wedding
Act of Wedding Ceremony
An Act of Ceremony in which two Persons are united in Marriage or a similar institution.
Decrease of Dependent Continuant
A Change in which some Independent Continuant has a decrease in the level of some Dependent Continuant that it bears.
Communication Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in a process in which meaningful signs are conveyed from one entity to another.
The submillimeter waveband is between the far-infrared and microwave wavebands and is typically taken to have a wavelength of between a few hundred micrometers and a millimeter.
Submillimeter Wavelength Radio Telescope
Microwave Telescope
A Radio Telescope that is designed to aid in the observation of spatially distant Objects by means of collecting and focusing radio waves from the submillimeter waveband (i.e. microwaves) to form an enhanced image of the Object.
http://kp12m.as.arizona.edu/docs/what_is_submillimeter.htm, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submillimetre_astronomy
Spherical Coordinate System
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.
Hydraulic Power Transfer Unit
A Material Artifact that is designed to transfer hydraulic power from one of an Aircraft's hydraulic systems to another in the event that a system has failed or been turned off.
Note, the term 'accuracy' is avoided due to its ambiguity between: correctness-of-performance (see: 'Reliability Measurement Information Content Entity'), correctness-of-information (see: 'Veracity Measurement Information Content Entity'), and adherance-to-expectations ('Deviation Measurement Information Content Entity').
Deviation Measurement Information Content Entity
Conformance Measurement
Degree of Conformance
Degree of Deviation
Deviation Measurement
A Measurement Information Content Entity that is a measurement of the extent to which an entity conforms to how it is expected or supposed to be.
a missile impact deviates from its target location by 100 feet
a satellite deviaties from its predicted orbital path by 5 kilometers
an overweight piece of luggage deviates from an airline's maximum allowed weight by +10 pounds
In order for a Deviation to exist, an entity must first be expected, represented, prescribed, or predicted as being a certain way. Then, at a future time, this value can be compared to its actual, reported, or measured value to determine the Deviation between these values.
The corresponding Wavelength range is 1,000–1 mm
Microwave Frequency
A Radio Frequency that is between 300 MHz and 300 GHz.
Spherical
A Three Dimensional Shape inhering in a bearer in virtue of all of its cross sections being round.
Land Mine
An Explosive Weapon that is designed to be concealed under or on the ground and to detonate as its target passes over or near it.
Geospatial Region Bounding Box Identifier List
A Measurement Unit of Geocoordinate that is comprised of 4 pairs of coordinates, one for each of the 4 defining points (North, West, South, East) of a Geospatial Region Bounding Box.
Transducer
A Material Artifact that is designed to convert one form of energy to another.
Forward Operations Base
Forward Operating Base
A Military Base that is located relatively close to an offensive Area of Operations, is supported by the Base of Operations, and is designed to support local strategic objectives and tactical operations.
Length
A One Dimensional Extent that inheres in a bearer in virtue of the bearer's greatest extent in one direction.
Act of Sojourn
An Act of Inhabitancy in which a Person lives in a dwelling temporarily, often during stages of an Act of Travel.
This class is designed to group continuants according to a very broad criterion and is not intended to be used as a parent class for entities that can be more specifically represented under another class. Hence, Natural Resource may be an appropriate subtype but Money, Oil, and Gold Mine are not.
Resource
A Continuant that is owned by, in the possession of, or is otherwise controlled by an Agent such that it could be used by that Agent.
Resources are Resources for some Agent. If no instance of Agent existed, no instance of Resource would exist either. It is not a requirement that something be valuable in order for it to be a Resource. Thus the value of something can drastically change without altering whether that thing is a Resource.
Act of Targeting
A Planned Act wherein some Agent maintains one or more entities as the objects of potential action given some operational requirement.
Ignition System
A Material Artifact that is designed to produce an Ignition process.
Chart
An Image that is designed to carry some Representational Information Content Entity that is prescribed by some canonical visual format.
Adapted from “Chart.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chart. Accessed 4 Aug. 2024.
Act of Social Group Membership
An Act of Association wherein a Person belongs to some Social Group.
Point Estimate Information Content Entity
Best Estimate
Point Estimate
Point Estimate Measurement Information Content Entity
An Estimate Information Content Entity that consists of a single value for the measured entity.
Combustion Engine
A Heat Engine that is designed to convert thermal energy that is generated through a local Combustion process into mechanical energy.
Canal
A Water Transportation Artifact that is an artificial Hydrographic Feature designed to convey water or enable Watercraft to travel inland.
Bullet
A Portion of Ammunition that is designed to be projected by a Firearm, Sling, Slingshot, or Air Gun, but which does not (typically) contain explosives.
Julian Day Number
A Decimal Date Identifier that designates some Julian Day by using a number to indicate the sequential ordering of the Day since the Julian Date epoch.
Text Messaging
Act of Text Messaging
Act of Texting
An Act of Communication by Media involving the exchange of brief written messages between fixed-line phone or mobile phone and fixed or portable devices over a network.
Action Permission
Authorization
License
A Process Regulation that permits some Process.
This is a defined class used to group process profiles of Wave Processes. Note that not every relevant process profile can be asserted as a subtype, however, because they (e.g. Frequency and Amplitude) are applicable to other processes as well (e.g. Oscillation Process).
Wave Process Profile
A Process Profile of a Wave Process.
The corresponding Wavelength range is 1,000–100 km
Ultra Low Frequency
ITU Band Number 3
A Radio Frequency that is between 300 Hz and 3 kHz.
Divisions between EM radiation frequencies are fiat and sources vary on where to draw boundaries.
Electromagnetic Radiation Frequency
A Frequency that is characterized by the rate of Oscillations per second of an Electromagnetic Wave.
Zenith
A One-Dimensional Spatial Region that extends from a given location upward along the local vertical direction pointing in the direction opposite the apparent Gravitational Force at that location.
Database
An Information Bearing Artifact that is designed to bear some set of specific Information Content Entities and to be rapidly searchable and retrievable.
Synagogue
A Religious Facility that is designed for Judaic worship and prayer.
Component Role
A Role that inheres in an entity having a discrete structure in virtue of that entity being part of a system considered at a particular level of analysis.
ISO/IEC. 1998. Information Technology ― System and Software Integrity Levels Geneva, Switzerland: International Organization for Standardization (ISO)/International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). ISO/IEC. 15026:1998. : 3.1
Color Saturation
An Optical Property that inheres in a bearer in virtue of its capacity to reflect high intensity light distributed across fewer wavelengths, typically considered on a continuum of purity.
Surface Wave Profile
Surface Wave
A Wave Process Profile in which the Wave Process propogates along the surface of a medium and which involves both transverse and longitudinal wave profiles such that the motion of the displacement of participating particles is circular or elliptical.
Pier
A Transportation Facility that is designed to partially enclose a harbor and form a landing place for Watercraft.
Fungicide Artifact Function
An Anti-Microbial Artifact Function that is realized in a process which causes harm to, or the death of, some fungus or fungal spore.
Velocity
A Process Profile of an object's Motion that is characterized by its Speed and direction with respect to a frame of reference.
Optical Focusing Artifact Function
An Optical Processing Artifact Function that is realized by an Artifact participating in a light focusing event in which the Artifact causes the light beam to converge on a target spatial point.
Wave Production
Wave Production Process
A Natural Process in which a Wave Process is generated.
Hardness
A Quality that inheres in a bearer in virtue of the degree to which it can be turned, bowed, or twisted without breaking.
A Lubrication System typical consists of a reservoir, pump, heat exchanger, filter, regulator, valves, sensors, pipes, and hoses. In some cases it also includes the passageways and openings within the artifact it is designed to lubricate. For example, the oil holes in a bearing and crankshaft.
Lubrication System
A Material Artifact that is designed to contain, transfer, and regulate the flow of lubricant to multiple locations in an Artifact.
Amount
A Quality that inheres in a bearer in virtue of the total, aggregate or sum of a number of discrete items or material the entity contains as parts.
Act of Requesting
An Act of Directive Communication performed by asking for something.
Measurement Unit of Density
A Measurement Unit that is used as a standard for measurement of the mass of an object per unit of its total volume.
Imaging Instrument
A Material Artifact that is designed to produce images (visual representations) of an entity.
An Impulse changes the Momentum (and potentially also the direction of Motion) of the object it is applied to and is typically measured in Newton meters.
Impulsive Force
Imp
Impulse
A Process Profile that is the integral of a Force that is applied to a portion of matter over a period of time.
Curvilinear Motion
Curved Motion
A Translational Motion process in which an Object moves along a curved path.
Video Camera
A Camera that is designed to form and digitally or physically record a continuous stream of subsequent images of an entity or scene such that the images can be played back in succession as a video.
Locomotive
A Rail Transport Vehicle that is designed to provide the motive power for a Train.
Signal Detection Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in the process of discerning between information-bearing patterns and random patterns, or noise, that distract from the information.
Hydraulic Motor
A Physically Powered Engine that converts hydraulic pressure and flow into torque and angular displacement.
Chemical Depot
A Storage Facility that is designed to store chemicals.
Portion of Cryosphere
A fiat object part of the frozen part of a natural satellite's hydosphere
Ethnicity
A Quality that inheres in its bearers by virtue of a common heritage, often consisting of a common language, a common culture (often including a shared religion) and an ideology that stresses common ancestry or endogamy.
Control System
A Material Artifact that is designed to manage, command, direct, or regulate the behavior of at least one other Artifact.
Factory
A Facility that is designed for manufacturing or refining material products.
Stasis of Non-Mission Capable Maintenance
A Stasis of Non-Mission Capable during which the participating Continuant is not capable of performing its primary functions for the specified Mission due to participating in an Act Of Maintenance.
Optical Property
An Electromagnetic Radiation Property that is realized when its bearer interacts with electromagnetic waves within the visible light spectrum.
Radio Repeater
A Radio Transceiver that is designed to receive a radio signal, amplify it, and retransmit it (often on another frequency).
Increase of Role
An Increase of Realizable Entity in which some Independent Continuant has an increase of some Role that it bears.
Altitude
A Height that inheres in a Site that externally connects an Independent Continuant to either the surface of the Earth or the Earth's mean Sea Level.
Turbine Steam Engine
Steam Turbine
A Steam Engine that is designed to extract thermal energy from pressurized steam and use it to do mechanical work on a rotating output shaft.
Translational Motion
A Motion Process in which the participating Object changes its position from one portion of space to another.
Direct Current Power Source
An Electrical Power Source that is designed to transfer electrical power in the form of direct current.
Chemical Reaction Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in a process that leads to the transformation of one set of chemical substances to another.
Catadioptric Optical Telescope
Catadioptric Telescope
An Optical Telescope that is designed to aid in the observation of spatially distant Objects by means of collecting and focusing visible light through the use of a combination of Lenses and Mirrors to form an enhanced image of the Object.
Fuel Ventilation System
A Fluid Control Artifact that is designed to allow air into the Fuel Tank to take the place of burned fuel.
Geospatial Ellipse
A One-Dimensional Geospatial Boundary that is formed by following a symmetric arc between four vertices which are connected to the center point of the ellipse via a straight line.
Electrical Conduction Artifact Function
An Electrical Artifact Function that is realized by an Artifact being used to conduct an electric current.
Rail Transport Vehicle
A Ground Vehicle that is designed to convey cargo, passengers, or equipment by Railway.
Hazel
A Color that is a combination of Brown and Green, typically associated with eye color.
Information Bearing Artifact
A Material Artifact that carries an Information Content Entity and is designed to do so using a particular format or structure.
List
An Information Bearing Artifact that consists of one or more Information Bearing Artifacts that carry Information Content Entities and are the subjects of some Sequence Position Ordinality.
Day
A Temporal Interval that is equal to the approximate length of time required for an Astronomical Body to complete one rotation around its Rotational Axis as specified relative to a particular Temporal Reference System.
Unless otherwise specified, a Day is assumed to be relative to the rotational motion of the Earth and is approximately equal to a twenty-four hour temporal region for which the start and end times are specified by the Temporal Reference System used.
y-Axis
A Coordinate System Axis designated by the variable 'y'.
Stage
An Entertainment Facility that is designed to provide a space upon which entertaining performances or productions can occur.
Round
Circular
A Shape Quality that inheres in a bearer in virtue of every point along its circumference being equidistant from the center.
Prism
An Optical Instrument that is designed to refract light and which consists of a transparent material with flat polished surfaces where at least two of these surfaces have an angle between them.
Coiled
A Shape Quality inhering in a bearer in virtue of the bearer being wound in concentric rings or spirals.
Power Tool
A Tool that is designed to be actuated by a Power Source and mechanism other than or in addition to manual labor.
Compression Ignition Engine
An Internal Combustion Engine that is designed to operate by igniting a portion of Fuel and Oxidizer mixture using heat generated via compression of the mixture.
Reactant Artifact Function
A Chemical Reaction Artifact Function that is realized in a process in which a substance or compound is added to a system in order to bring about a chemical reaction and is consumed in the course of the reaction.
Submersible Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in processes of operating while submerged in water.
Multi-Week Temporal Interval
A one-dimensional temporal region that is measured in Weeks and spans at least one Week.
Radio Wave Conversion Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized by an Artifact being used to convert electric power into radio waves or radio waves into electric power.
Electromagnetic Pulse
EMP
Transient Electromagnetic Disturbance
An Electromagnetic Wave Process that consists of a short high-energy burst of electromagnetic energy.
Portion of Nuclear Fuel
A Portion of Material that is designed to be used in a nuclear fission process to produce energy.
Water Treatment Facility
A Facility that is designed for making water more acceptable for a specific end-use.
Folded
A Shape Quality inhering in a bearer in virtue of one part of the bearer being layered over another connected part.
Portion of Liquid Nitrogen
A Portion of Cryogenic Material that is composed (almost) entirely of liquid nitrogen.
Geospatial Line String
A One-Dimensional Geospatial Boundary that has two or more Geospatial Positions as vertices, where each vertex is connected to only one other vertex by a straight line.
Orange
A Color that is between Red and Yellow with a wavelength in the visible spectrum typically between 590 to 635 nanometers.
Stasis
A Process in which one or more Independent Continuants endure in an unchanging condition.
Stasis of Function
A Stasis of Realizable Entity in which some Independent Continuant bears some Function that remains unchanged during a Temporal Interval.
Act of Promising
An Act of Commissive Communication performed by declaring that the promising agent will do, or refrain from doing, the specified action.
The corresponding Wavelength range is 100–10 km
Very Low Frequency
ITU Band Number 4
A Radio Frequency that is between 3 and 30 kHz.
Optical Communication Artifact Function
An Electromagnetic Communication Artifact Function that is realized in a process that conveys meaningful signs by means of visible light.
Stasis of Role
A Stasis of Realizable Entity in which some Independent Continuant bears some Role that remains unchanged during a Temporal Interval.
Telecommunication Network Line
A Communication Artifact that is designed to be the physical transmission medium that connects two or more Telecommunication Network Nodes within a Telecommunication Network to facilitate communication between the Nodes.
Refractivity
A Radiation Reflectivity that inheres in a bearer in virtue of the capacity of that bearer to change the direction of a propagating wave when passing through it.
Time of Day Identifier
A Temporal Instant Identifier that designates some Time of Day.
Pesticide Artifact Function
A Poison Artifact Function that is realized in a process which causes illness in, or the death of, a living thing that is detrimental to humans or human concerns.
Standards of date, time, and time zone data formats: ISO/WD 8601-2 (http://www.loc.gov/standards/datetime/iso-tc154-wg5_n0039_iso_wd_8601-2_2016-02-16.pdf) W3C (https://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime)
There is no class 'Time Zone' (the region), only 'Time Zone Identifier' (the designator for some region). Instances of 'Time Zone Identifier' should be related to instances of 'Information Bearing Entity' by means of the object properites 'uses time zone identifier' and 'time zone identifier used by' as appropriate. This is supposed to be analogous to the way we represent the relationship between measurement values and measurement units, where the relevant instance of Information Bearing Entity 'uses measurement unit' some instance of Measurement Unit (i.e., an instance of Information Content Entity).
Time Zone Identifier
A Spatial Region Identifier that designates the region associated with some uniform standard time for legal, commercial, or social purposes.
An object's speed is the scalar absolute value of it's Velocity.
Speed
A Process Profile that is characterized by the magnitude of an object's motion with respect to a frame of reference during some time period.
Herbicide Artifact Function
A Pesticide Artifact Function that is realized in a process which causes harm to, or the death to, unwanted plants.
Year
A Temporal Interval that is equal to the approximate length of time required for an Astronomical Body to complete one Orbital Revolution around its Primary Body as specified relative to a particular Temporal Reference System.
Unless otherwise specified, a Year is assumed to be relative to the Orbiting of the Earth around the Sun and is approximately equal to 12 Months or 365 Days.
Julian Date Identifier
A Decimal Time of Day Identifier that designates a Julian Date and is composed of both a Julian Day Number and a Julian Date Fraction.
Mid Infrared Light Frequency
An Infrared Light Frequency that is between 20 and 214 terahertz.
Body Shape
A Shape Quality inhering in a Person's body by virtue of the body's general outline or figure.
Act of Financial Instrument Use
An Act of Artifact Employment in which some Agent uses some Financial Instrument.
Family
A Group of Persons related to one another by ancestry or marriage.
Portion of Fuel
A Portion of Material that is designed to release thermal energy when reacted with other substances.
Act of Donating
An Act of Financial Instrument Use wherein a Financial Instrument is tranfered by an Agent (the Donor) to another Agent (the Recipient) without return consideration.
Bicycle
A Ground Vehicle that consists of two wheels, one in front of the other, attached to a frame along with handlebars and pedals such that it is designed to receive its motive power from pedaling.
Explosive Artifact Function
A Damaging Artifact Function that is realized in a process in which the structural integrity of an entity is impaired beucase of the rapid increase in volume and release of energy in an extreme manner.
Sub-Bass Frequency
A Sonic Frequency that is between 20 and 60 Hz.
Solar Panel
An Electrical Power Source that consists in part of one or more photovoltaic (i.e. solar) cells that convert light energy (photons) directly into electricity by means of the photovoltaic effect.
Measurement Unit of Temperature
A Measurement Unit that is used as a standard for measurement of the thermal energy in an object.
A percentage is one way to express a proportional measure where the decimal expression of the proportion is multiplied by 100, thus giving the proportional value with respect to a whole of 100. E.g., the ratio of pigs to cows on a farm is 44 to 79 (44:79 or 44/79). The proportion of pigs to total animals is 44 to 123 or 44/123. The percentage of pigs is the decimal equivalent of the proportion (0.36) multiplied by a 100 (36%). The percentage can be expressed as a proportion where the numerator value is transformed for a denominator of 100, i.e., 36 of a 100 animals are pigs (36/100).
We may want to add either a subclass for Percentage or a data property (has percentage value) that links the percentage expression for a proportion to the relevant IBE.
Proportional Ratio Measurement Information Content Entity
A Ratio Measurement Information Content Entity that is a measurement of a portion of a whole (described by the numerator) compared against that whole (described by the denominator) where the whole is a nominally described set of like entities.
Hydroelectric Power Plant
An Electric Power Station that is designed to convert hydropower into electrical power.
Active Stasis
A Stasis of Artifact Operationality that holds during a Temporal Interval when an Artifact is realizing one or more of its designed Artifact Functions (especially one of its primary functions).
Mounted Gun
A Firearm that is designed to be fired while mounted.
Heating System
An Environment Control System that is designed to heat the air or objects in a Site.
Stasis of Quality
A Stasis of Specifically Dependent Continuant in which some Independent Continuant bears some Quality that remains unchanged during a Temporal Interval.
Light Machine Gun
A Long Gun that is designed to fire bullets in quick succession from an ammunition belt or magazine and to be employed by an individual soldier, with or without assistance, and typically weighing 9-22 lbs.
Measurement Unit of Work
A Measurement Unit that is used as a standard for measurement of displacements of points to which Forces have been applied.
Descriptive Information Content Entity
Descriptive ICE
An Information Content Entity that consists of a set of propositions that describe some Entity.
Decrease of Realizable Entity
A Decrease of Specifically Dependent Continuant in which some Independent Continuant has a decrease of some Realizable Entity that it bears.
Effect of Location Change
An Effect caused by some Act of Location Change and which results in an Object being located in a different place.
Artifact History
A History of an Artifact.
Ultra High Frequency Communication Instrument
A Radio Communication Instrument that is designed to participate in some process that has process part some Ultra High Frequency.
Improvised Explosive Device
An Explosive Weapon that is designed to be used in non-conventional military action.
Television Broadcast
Act of Television Broadcasting
An Act of Communciation by Media that is transmitted to an audience through a television network.
Allied Person
A Person who is the bearer of some Ally Role.
Split
A Shape Quality inhering in a bearer in virtue of the bearer having a linear opening, or having been divided into parts.
Sound Process Profile
Sound Quality
A Process Profile that is part of a sound reception process and is characterized by properties of incoming sound waves as they are translated by some sensory system.
Act of Confessing
An Act of Representative Communication in which a person makes an admission of misdeeds or faults.
Public Safety Artifact Function
A Service Artifact Function that is realized in processes of preventing and responding to events that could endanger the safety of the general public from significant danger, injury/harm, or damage, such as crimes or disasters (natural or man-made).
Loss of Specifically Dependent Continuant
A Loss of Dependent Continuant in which some Independent Continuant ceases to be the bearer of some Specifically Dependent Continuant.
Radio Broadcast
Act of Radio Broadcasting
An Act of Communciation by Media that is transmitted to an audience through a radio network.
Pipeline
A Product Transport Facility that is designed to transport goods or materials through a pipe.
Rocket Pod
A Rocket Launcher that is designed to contain several Unguided Rockets held in individual tubes and to be used by Aircraft or Helicopters for close air support.
Optical Camera
A Camera that is designed to form and record an image generated from visible light.
Infrastructure System
Infrastructure
A Material Entity that is composed of elements bearing Infrastructure Roles and is by itself sufficient to provide a planned service or benefit to some organization that maintains its elements.
Plant
An Organism that is multicellular, eukaryotic, autotrophic, and has cells that contain chloroplasts and walls made of cellulose.
Brown
A Color that consists of dark orange and red, and of very low intensity.
Physiographic Feature
A Geographic Feature that is a geomorphological unit characterized by its surface form and location in the landscape.
Video
An Information Bearing Artifact that is designed to bear some specific Information Content Entity in the form of a sequence of representations that are presented sufficiently rapidly to create the appearance of motion and continuity.
Act of Personal Communication
An Act of Communication having a small audience.
Loss of Dependent Continuant
A Change in which some Independent Continuant ceases to be the bearer or carrier of some Dependent Continuant.
Brake Control System
A Vehicle Control System that is designed to control the process of braking with the aim of preventing rolling, skidding, and hydroplaning.
Identification Friend or Foe Transponder
IFF
A Radio Transponder that is designed to automatically transmit a predefined signal in response to receiving an appropriate interrogation signal such that the entity it is located on can be positively identified as friendly.
Act of Religious Group Affiliation
An Act of Association wherein some Person belongs to some Religious Demonination or sub-Denomination.
Religious Artifact Function
A Service Artifact Function that is realized in processes related to worship and prayer.
Storage Facility
A Facility that is designed to store materials or goods.
Wind Farm
An Electric Power Station that is designed to convert the wind's kinetic energy into electrical power by means of wind turbines.
Act of Inviting
An Act of Commissive Communication performed by requesting the presence or participation of the audience, and which may include offering an incentive or inducement.
Act of Loaning
An Act of Financial Instrument Use wherein a Financial Instrument is given by an Agent (the Creditor) to another Agent (the Debtor) in order to receive Repayments from the Debtor which are of greater Financial Value.
Wavy
Undulate
A Shape Quality inhering in a bearer in virtue of it having a sinuous or rippled border.
Wired Communication Reception Artifact Function
A Communication Reception Artifact Function that is realized during events in which an Artifact receives information transmitted from another Artifact, where the transmission of information occurs via a direct connection using an electrical conductor.
City
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.
High Frequency Communication Instrument
A Radio Communication Instrument that is designed to participate in some process that has process part some High Frequency.
Visible Observation
An Act of Observation that involves visual perception.
Act of Travel
An Act of Location Change wherein one or more Persons move between relatively distant geographical locations for any purpose and any duration, with or without any means of transport.
Calendar System
A Temporal Reference System that is designed to organize and identify dates.
Calendars typically organize dates through the use of naming and temporal conventions based on Days, Weeks, Months, and Years.
Depth
A One Dimensional Extent that inheres in a bearer in virtue of the bearer's extension in a downward, backward, or inward direction.
An empty notebook, when manufactured, is a medium but not yet a carrier of information content. However, a book, in the sense of a novel or collection of philosophical essays or poems, depends necessarily on it carrying some information content. Thus, there are no empty books. Likewise, there are no empty databases, only portions of digital storage that have not yet been configured to carry some information content according to a database software application.
Information Medium Artifact
A Material Artifact that is designed to have some Information Bearing Artifact as part.
Decimal Date Identifier
A Date Identifier that designates some Day by using a number to indicate the sequential ordering of the Day since a specified Reference Time.
Married
Married Stasis
A Stasis of Generically Dependent Continuant that consists of a socially, culturally, or ritually recognized union or legal contract between spouses that establishes rights and obligations between them, between them and their children, and between them and their in-laws.
Haviland, William A.; Prins, Harald E. L.; McBride, Bunny; Walrath, Dana (2011). Cultural Anthropology: The Human Challenge (13th ed.). Cengage Learning. ISBN 978-0-495-81178-7
Mean Point Estimate Information Content Entity
Arithmetic Mean
Average
Mean
A Point Estimate Information Content Entity that is a measurement of a set of values and is equal to the sum of all the values in the set divided by the total number of values in the set.
Oxidizers are essential participants in many processes including combustion and rusting. Hence, a portion of oxidizer must always be present along with a portion of fuel in order for combustion to occur.
Portion of Oxidizer
Portion of Oxidant
Portion of Oxidizing Agent
A Portion of Material that is disposed to steal electrons from other substances (i.e. to oxidize other substances) as a participant in a reduction-oxidation process.
oxygen, hydrogen peroxide, chlorine, sulfiric acid, potassium nitrate
Geopolitical Power Role
A Role had by an Organization, that is perceived by an International Community as capable of performing influential acts in that community, and which would be realized in performing such acts.
MSI Plessey Barcode
A One-Dimensional Barcode that consists of an indefinite number of numerical characters and is used for inventory control and marking storage containers and shelves in warehouse environments.
Radio Communication Relay Artifact Function
A Communication Relay Artifact Function that is realized during events in which an Artifact is used to first receive and then transmit information without the use of wires from one Artifact to another for the purpose of communiction.
Decontamination Facility
A Washing Facility that is designed to wash personnel or equipment after (potential) contamination by radioactive, biological, or chemical material.
Act of Facility Use
An Act of Artifact Employment in which an Agent makes use of some Facility.
Radio Communication Instrument
A Communication Instrument that is designed to enable communication between two or more entities via the use of radio waves.
Vehicle Track
An Object Track for a Vehicle during some motion.
Post Office
A Mailing Facility that is designed for serving customers of the national postal system.
Email Box
A Telecommunication Instrument that is designed to be the delivery destination of Email Messages that are addressed to the corresponding Email Address.
Telephone
Phone
A Telecommunication Instrument that is designed to provide point-to-point communication between agents by means of audio messages.
Act of Artifact Processing
A Planned Act of performing a series of mechanical or chemical operations on something in order to change or preserve it.
Emergency AC/DC Power Source
An Electrical Power Source that is designed to provide electrical power in an emergency situation by means of both alternating current and direct current.
Amplitude
A Process Profile of an Oscillation Process that is the absolute value of the maximum displacement from a zero, equilibrium, or mean value during one cycle of the Oscillation Process.
Semi-Major Axis
A One-Dimensional Spatial Region that is equal to half the length of the Major Axis of an Ellipse.
Pyramidal
A Three Dimensional Shape that inheres in a bearer in virtue of it having a polygonal base with vertices that all connect to the same apex to form triangular faces.
Maroon
A Color consisting of purple and brown hue.
Group of Persons
A Group of Agents that has only Persons as parts.
Acronym
An Abbreviated Name that combines the initial letters of a Designative Name and which is pronounced as a word.
Lunar Calendar System
A Calendar System that is designed to organize and identify dates based on the cycles of the Moon's phases.
Permanent Residency - Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_residency. Accessed 10 Feb. 2023.
Permanent Resident Role
A role inhering in a Person by virtue of that Person being recognized as having legal resident status in a Government Domain in which that person is not a citizen but where they have the right to reside on a permanent basis.
Telecommunication Network Node
A Communication Artifact that consists of a connection point, redistribution point, or endpoint that is designed to be part of a Telecommunication Network and can be either active or passive.
Parts List
A Quality Specification that prescribes the Amount of some type of Artifact that are part of or located on another Artifact.
Death
A Natural Process in which all biological functions that sustain a living organism cease.
Calendar Day
A Day that begins and ends concurrently with the Seconds specified by a Calendar System to be the first and last Seconds of the Day.
Act of Arrival
An Act of Location Change that consists of the participating entity reaching its destination such that the larger Act of Location Change is completed.
Arbitrary Identifier
Arbitrary ID
A Non-Name Identifier that consists of a string of characters that does not follow an encoding system.
A Beginning of Life Stasis (BoL) is a relatively brief Operational Stasis that is primarily of interest for the purpose of establishing a baseline for operational parameters to be compared to the designed specifications as well as the Artifact's performance throughout its operational life.
Beginning of Life Stasis
A Operational Stasis that holds during a Temporal Interval when an Artifact is first put into operational use such that its designed set of Artifact Functions is capable of operating at or near their designed peak performance levels.
Act of Military Training Acquisition
An Act of Training Acquisition performed by an Agent by acquiring knowledge of the tactics, techniques, and/or strategies of Military Operations from an Agent or communication medium that realizes a capacity derived from its affiliation with a Military Organization.
Act of Apologizing
An Act of Expressive Communication performed by acknowledging and expressing regret for a fault, shortcoming, or failure.
Bass Frequency
A Sonic Frequency that is between 60 and 250 Hz.
Train Car
Railroad Car
A Rail Transport Vehicle that consists of a single Vehicle that is not a Train but is designed to be connected to other Train Cars along with at least one Locomotive to form a Train.
Part Role
A Role that inheres in an entity in virtue of it being part of some other entity without being subject to further subdivision or disassembly without destruction of its designated use.
Nickel-metal Hydride Electric Battery
NiMH Battery
A Secondary Cell Electric Battery that has a metal-hydride anode and nickel oxide hydroxide cathode.
UPC-A Barcode
A UPC Barcode that consists of 12 numerical digits.
Computing Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized by an Artifact participating in a computation process.
Landline Telephone
A Telephone that is connected to a Telephone Network through a pair of wires.
Constituent State
State
A First-Order Administrative Region that is part of a Country and delimits a centralized regional Government that holds constitutionally-defined administrative jurisdiction over the defined geographic territory that bounds the State.
Act of Legal Instrument Use
An Act of Artifact Employment in which some Agent uses some Legal Instrument.
Deactivated Stasis
A Stasis of Artifact Operationality that holds during a Temporal Interval when an Artifact is not realizing any of its designed Artifact Functions (or at least not realizing any of its primary functions).
Inhibiting Motion Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized by processes in which some Artifact is used to inhibit the motion of some object.
Financial Artifact Function
A Service Artifact Function that is realized in processes of managing money.
Geospatial Line
A Geospatial Line String that has only two vertices.
Measurement Unit of Momentum
A Measurement Unit that is used as a standard for measurement of the Momentum of a portion of matter that is in Motion.
Phosphorescence
A Luminescent Property that inheres in a bearer in virtue of that bearer's capacity to emit visible light after absorbing shorter wavelength radiation, and to continue emitting after the absorbing process has ceased.
Sniper Rifle
A Rifle that is designed to be highly accurate for long-range precision tactical shooting.
Ocular Prosthesis
An Artificial Eye that is designed to replace a missing eye, but which does not function as an eye.
Thermal Imaging Artifact Function
An Imaging Artifact Function that is realized during events in which an Artifact is used to create a visual representation of an entity using radiation from the far infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum that the entity emits
X-ray Telescope
A Telescope that is designed to aid in the observation of spatially distant Objects by means of collecting and focusing X-rays to form an enhanced image of the Object.
Government Building
A Facility that is designed for the administration of a community.
Temperature Measurement Artifact Function
A Measurement Artifact Function that is realized during events in which an Artifact is used to measure the Temperature of a specified object or class of objects.
Act of Religious Worship
An Act of Ceremony wherein there occurs acts of religious devotion usually directed towards a deity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worship (Sense Key: Worship%2:42:00 or Worship%1:04:00::)
Act of Consumption
A Planned Act in which a resource is ingested or used up.
Act of Maintenance
An Act of Artifact Modification in which an Artifact is modified in order to preserve or restore one or more of its designed Qualities or Functions.
Electromagnetic Wave Process
Electromagnetic Radiation
A Wave Process that is produced by charged particles, involves the periodic Oscillation of electric and magnetic fields at right angles to each other and the direction of wave propogation such that it has a Transverse Wave Profile, and which transfers electromagnetic radiant energy through a portion of space or matter.
Electric Motor
Electric Engine
An Engine that is designed to convert electrical energy into mechanical energy.
Pitch
A Sound Process Profile that is characterized by the frequency of translated sound waves, typically on a continuum from low to high.
Telecommunication Infrastructure
An Infrastructure System that is designed to support the use of Telecommunication Instruments to communicate.
Angular Momentum
A Momentum that is the product of an object's moment of inertia and its Angular Velocity.
Highway Interchange
A Road Junction that is designed to enable Ground Vehicles to exit one or more Highways and enter another Highway without directly crossing any other traffic stream.
Reservoir
A Storage Facility that is designed to store water in a man-made open enclosure or area.
Information Content Entity
ICE
A Generically Dependent Continuant that generically depends on some Information Bearing Entity and stands in relation of aboutness to some Entity.
Information Content Entity is here intended to be a class of Entities whose instances are the informational content of Information Bearing Entities. For example, three instances of information bearers -- such as a bar chart, color-coded map, and a written report -- each of which lists the GDP of Countries for the year 2010 are each different carriers of the same information content. It is this content that is generically dependent upon its carrier. This treatment of Informational Content Entity (cf. the Information Artifact Ontology) leads to a principle of subtyping based upon the relationship that ICE's have with the Entity they are about rather than characteristics such as format, language, measurement scale, or media. The latter are treated here as being Qualities of bearers.
Measurement Unit of Frequency
A Measurement Unit that is used as a standard for measurement of the number of times an event repeats per unit of time.
Fixed Line Network Telephone Call
A Telephone Call transmitted over a telephone network where the telephones are wired into a single telephone exchange.
Current Conversion Artifact Function
An Electrical Artifact Function that is realized by processes in which some Artifact is used to convert some electrical current.
Portion of Liquid Propellant
A Portion of Propellant that is stored in a liquid state.
Fuel Transfer System
A Fluid Control Artifact that is designed to facilitate the transfer of some Portion of Fuel from the Fuel Tank for use in some Engine.
The corresponding Wavelength range is 1,000–100 m
Medium Frequency
ITU Band Number 6
A Radio Frequency that is between 300 kHz and 3 MHz.
Directive Information Content Entity
Directive ICE
An Information Content Entity that consists of a set of propositions or images (as in the case of a blueprint) that prescribe some Entity.
EAN Barcode
A One-Dimensional Barcode that consists of 8 or 13 numerical digits and is used to scan consumer goods.
Height
A One Dimensional Extent that inheres in a bearer in virtue of the bearer's extension in a vertical direction.
Assault Rifle
A Rifle that is designed to have selective-fire functionality and use an intermediate Cartridge and a detachable magazine.
Measurement Unit of Speed
A Measurement Unit that is used as a standard for measurement of the rates at which objects traverse distance.
miles per hour, kilometers per hour, knot, mach
Excluded from this class are instances of role change or role creation such as the introduction of an artifact as a piece of evidence in a trial or the loading of artifacts onto a ship for transport.
Act of Artifact Modification
An Act of Artifact Processing in which an existing Artifact is acted upon in a manner that changes, adds, or removes one or more of its Qualities, Dispositions, or Functions.
Act of Deceptive Communication
Ac Act of Communication intended to mislead the audience by distortion or falsification of evidence and induce a reaction that is prejudicial to the interests of the audience.
EAN-13 Barcode
An EAN Barcode that consists of 13 numerical digits and is used to designate products at the point of sale.
Decimal Time of Day Identifier
Fractional Time of Day Identifier
A Time of Day Identifier that designates an approximate Temporal Instant that is part of some Day and is specified using a decimal value for the portion of the Day that preceded the Temporal Instant.
Plan
A Directive Information Content Entity that prescribes some set of intended Intentional Acts through which some Agent expects to achieve some Objective.
Cyan
A Color that is between Green and Blue with a wavelength in the visible spectrum typically between 490 and 520 nanometers.
Political Orientation
An Ideology that characterizes the political thinking of an Agent or Group of Agents, usually with respect to the political environment within a particular nation.
Act of Publishing Mass Media Documentary
An Act of Mass Media Communication involving the preparation and public issuance of information that provides a factual record or report.
Cause
A Process that is the cause of or one of the causes of some other Process.
Closure
A Quality that inheres in a bearer in virtue of the degree to which that bearer affords passage or sightline through it via an opening, aperture, orifice, or vent.
Portion of Waste Material
A Portion of Processed Material that serves no further use in terms of the initial user's own purposes of production, transformation, or consumption such that the Agent wants to dispose of it.
Act of Portion of Material Consumption
An Act of Artifact Employment in which a Portion of Material is expended.
Decrease of Function
A Decrease of Disposition in which some Independent Continuant has a decrease of some Function that it bears.
Shear Wave Process
A Mechanical Wave that has a Transverse Wave Profile.
Occupation Role
A Role that inheres in an Agent in virtue of the responsibilities that Agent is expected to fulfill within the context of some Act of Employment.
Thermal Insulation Artifact Function
A Thermal Control Artifact Function that is realized during events in which an Artifact prevents or reduces the transfer of heat between objects that are in thermal contact or in range of radiative influence.
Scar
A Bodily Component that consists of a portion of fibrous connective tissue on skin or within body tissue and which was formed due to an injury that has not healed completely.
Citizen Role
A Role that inheres in a Person by virtue of that Person being legally recognized as a member of a particular state, with associated rights and obligations.
Reflective Prism
A Prism designed to reflect light in order to flip, invert, rotate, deviate, or displace a beam of light entering the Prism.
The corresponding Wavelength range is 100–10 mm
Super High Frequency
ITU Band Number 10
A Microwave Frequency that is between 3 and 30 GHz.
Nickname
A Designative Name that is a familiar or humorous substitute for an entity's Proper Name.
Bent
Angular
Kinked
A Shape Quality inhering in a bearer in virtue of the bearer having one or more angles along its border.
The Second is used as the basic SI unit of time.
Second
A Temporal Interval that is equal to the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium 133 atom.
Power Rectifying Artifact Function
A Current Conversion Artifact Function that is realized by processes in which some Artifact is used to convert alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC).
Electrical Power Production Artifact Function
An Electrical Artifact Function that is realized during events in which an Artifact is used to generate electrical power.
Material Artifact
A Material Entity that was designed by some Agent to realize a certain Function.
Ramjet Engine
Ramjet
An Air-Breathing Jet Engine that uses the forward motion of the Engine to compress incoming air (without the use of an axial compressor) and decelerate it to subsonic speeds before adding the fuel and constantly combusting the mixture then expelling the exhaust out through the rear Propelling Nozzle to generate Thrust.
Disrupting Disposition
A disposition the realization of which would disrupt a process some entity has an interest in.
This is a defined class. A Disrupting Disposition is indexed by the interest_in object property. A disposition can be a Disrupting Disposition according to one index and not a Disrupting Disposition according to another index.
Threat
Telecommunication Network
A Communication System that is designed to enable the transmission of information over significant distances between Telecommunication Endpoints via Telecommunication Network Nodes and Lines.
Defunct Stasis
A Stasis of Artifact Operationality that holds during a Temporal Interval when an Artifact no longer maintains its designed set of Artifact Functions (or at least no longer maintains its primary functions).
Spray Nozzle
A Nozzle that is designed to facilitate a conversion of the flow of a portion of liquid into a dynamic collection of drops dispersed in a portion of gas.
Drooping
A Shape Quality inhering in a bearer in virtue of the bearer having a border that hangs downwards.
Message
An Information Bearing Artifact that is designed to bear some specific Information Content Entity that is relatively brief and to be transmitted from a sender to a recipient.
Cartridge
A Portion of Ammunition that is designed to package a Bullet, a propellant substance, and a primer within a case that is designed to fit within the firing chamber of a Firearm.
Measurement Unit of Electromagnetic Force
A Measurement Unit that is used as a standard for measurement of the electromagnetic force between electrically charged entities.
Turbojet Air-Breathing Jet Engine
An Air-Breathing Jet Engine that uses a Turbojet, which consists of a Turbine with a Propelling Nozzle.
Operator Role
A Role that inheres in an Agent by virtue of that Agent's responsibilities to operate or control some Artifact.
Passenger Train Car
A Train Car that is designed to transport passengers.
Biological Weapon
A Weapon that is designed to inflict harm, incapacity, or death by means of releasing disease-producing agents—such as bacteria, viruses, or fungi.
Optical Telescope
A Telescope that is designed to aid in the observation of spatially distant Objects by means of collecting and focusing visible light to form an enhanced image of the Object.
Ordinal Measurement Information Content Entity
A Measurement Information Content Entity that consists of a symbol that places an Entity into some rank order.
The sentence "The coldest day in history in Chicago, IL. is January 20, 1985." is the carrier of an ordinal measurment.
a measurement that places Geospatial Regions into a rank order of small, medium, large
a measurement that places military units onto a readiness rank order of red, yellow, green
Automobile
A Ground Motor Vehicle that is designed to transport a small number of passengers while traveling on four tired wheels.
Further variants of GS1 DataBar have not been defined here.
GS1 DataBar Barcode
A One-Dimensional Barcode that consists of 12-14 numerical digits and is used in retail and healthcare.
Heating Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in a process in which the thermal energy of a system increases.
Proper Name
A Designative Name that is an official name for a particular entity.
Controlled-Access Highway
Expressway
Freeway
Motorway
A Highway that is designed for high-speed vehicular traffic, with all traffic flow and ingress/egress regulated.
Portion of Lithosphere
A fiat object part of the rigid, outermost rocky shell of a natural satellite.
Agent
A Material Entity that bears an Agent Capability.
Schlosser, Markus, "Agency", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2019 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), available at: https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2019/entries/agency/
Equipment Cooling System
A Cooling System that is designed to cool some piece of equipment.
Steering Control System
A Vehicle Control System that is designed to control the direction some Vehicle is traveling.
Portion of Gaseous Fuel
A Portion of Fuel that is stored in a gaseous state.
Act of Denying
An Act of Representative Communication performed by either asserting that something is not true or real or refusing to satisfy a request or desire.
Ratio Measurement Information Content Entity
A Measurement Information Content Entity that consists of a symbol that places a Quality of an Entity onto an interval scale having a true zero value.
The sentence "The temperature reached 240.372 degrees Kelvin on January 20, 1985 in Chicago, IL." is the carrier of a ratio measurement as 0 degrees on the Kelvin scale does describe absolute zero.
a measurement of the barometric pressure at 1,000 feet above sea level
a measurement of the measure of air temperature on the Kelvin scale
a measurement of the number of members in an Organization
Calendar Week
A Week that begins and ends concurrently with the Days specified by a Calendar System to be the first and last Days of the Week.
Spark Ignition Engine
An Internal Combustion Engine that is designed to operate by generating a spark to ignite a portion of Fuel and Oxidizer mixture.
Electric Generator
An Electrical Power Source that is designed to convert mechanical energy to electrical energy for use in an external circuit.
Pointing Orientation
Facing Orientation
A Spatial Orientation of a Material Entity in which one or more of its designated components are oriented toward a specified direction.
Trim Tab
A Control Surface that is designed to counteract hydro-, aerodynamic, or other forces in order to stabilize the Vehicle it is part of in the desired Attitude.
Mechanical Wave Process
A Wave Process that involves Oscillation of a portion of matter such that energy is transferred through the material medium.
Unguided Rocket
Rocket
A Portion of Ammunition that is designed to be a self-propelled, but unguided, projectile that delivers some payload (explosive or other) over relatively long distances through the use of a Rocket Engine.
Train
Railroad Train
Railway Train
A Rail Transport Vehicle that consists of a series of connected Train Cars or Railcars.
Act of Volunteering
An Act of Commissive Communication performed by voluntarily undertaking or expressing a willingness to undertake a service.
entering into military service voluntarily
Act of Assignment
An Act of Declarative Communication in which rights held by one party (the assignor) are transferred to another party (the assignee) with regard to a particular entity as specified by the details of the assignment, which is often prescribed by a contract.
Biological Sex
A Quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearer's ability to undergo sexual reproduction in order to differentiate the individuals or types involved.
Full Motion Video Camera
A Video Camera that is designed to capture and record images of sufficiently high quality and in rapid enough succession that the resulting video supports smooth playback.
Pitch Axis
Lateral Axis
An Axis of Rotation that passes through the center of an object's Mass and is perpendicular both to the direction of the object's motion and to the object's Yaw Axis.
Communication System
A Material Artifact that is designed to enable some Act of Communication by means of transmission systems, relay stations, tributary stations, and data terminal equipment, usually capable of interconnection and interoperation to form an integrated whole.
Constructed Feature
An Anthropogenic Feature that has been constructed by deliberate human effort.
Nickel Cadmium Electric Battery
NiCad Battery
A Secondary Cell Electric Battery that has a cadmium anode and nickel oxide hydroxide cathode.
Act of Repayment
An Act of Financial Instrument Use wherein a Financial Instrument is transferred by an Agent (the Debtor) to another Agent (the Creditor) to decrease the amount the Debtor owes to the Creditor from an earlier Act of Loaning.
Nadir
A One-Dimensional Spatial Region that extends from a given location downward along the local vertical direction pointing in the direction of the apparent Gravitational Force at that location.
Sequence Position Ordinality
An Ordinal Measurement Information Content Entity that is about the position of some entity in some ordered sequence.
Equipment Mount
A Material Artifact that is designed to support an Artifact.
Aircraft
A Vehicle that is designed to convey passengers, cargo, or equipment from one location to another by air travel.
Nuclear Radiation Detection Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized during events in which an Artifact is used to detect the presence of nuclear radiation particles.
Artifact Model
A Directive Information Content Entity that prescribes a common set of Functions and Qualities to inhere in a set of artifact instances.
Notification Message
A Message that is designed to bear an Information Content Entity that describes a scenario that has been determined to merit attention by the recipient.
Frequency
Temporal Frequency
A Process Profile that is characterized by the number of repetitive processes during a particular time period.
Increase of Dependent Continuant
A Change in which some Independent Continuant has an increase in the level of some Dependent Continuant that it bears.
Electrical Power Source
A Power Source that is designed to generate, control, and transfer power in the form of electrical energy.
Primary Cell Electric Battery
Primary Cell Battery
A Electric Battery that is designed for one-time use and not to be recharged.
Projectile Launcher
A Weapon that is designed to inflict damage or harm by means of launching a high-velocity projectile at a target.
Military Facility
A Facility that is designed to support a Military Force.
Act of Collision
An Act of Location Change involving the movement of one object such that it collides with another object.
Helical Antenna
A Wire Antenna that consists of a conducting wire wound in the form of a helix that is typically mounted over a ground plane with a feed line connected between the bottom of the helix and the ground plane.
Branched
A Shape Quality inhering in a bearer in virtue of the bearer having subdivisions or offshoots.
Visible light overlaps with near infrared and near ultraviolet.
Visible Light Frequency
An Electromagnetic Radiation Frequency of some Electromagnetic Wave that is between 400 and 800 terahertz.
Act of Issuing Mass Media Press Release
An Act of Mass Media Communication involving sending forth, distributing, or putting into circulation an official statement issued to one or more members of the media for the purpose of announcing newsworthy information.
Hour
A Temporal Interval that is equal to sixty consecutive Minutes.
Shape Quality
A Quality that inheres in a bearer in virtue of the ratios between dimensions of external features of that bearer.
Fuel System
A Material Artifact that is designed to pump, manage, and deliver some Portion of Fuel to the Propulsion System and Auxiliary Power Unit of some Vehicle.
Motorcycle
Motorbike
A Ground Motor Vehicle that is designed to transport a very small number of passengers (usually 1 or 2) while traveling on two or three tired wheels.
The International Community. 5 Apr. 2023, https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/international-community.
International Community
A maximal Group of Geopolitical Organizations engaged in geopolitics with one another.
Straight
Linear
A Shape Quality inhering in a bearer in virtue of the bearer not having curves, bends, or angles along its borders.
For information on types of barcodes, see: https://www.scandit.com/types-barcodes-choosing-right-barcode/
Barcode
An Information Bearing Artifact that is designed to bear one or more geometric shapes that concretize some Directive Information Content Entity.
Two Dimensional Extent
Area
A Size Quality that inheres in a bearer in virtue of the bearer's extension in two dimensions.
Loss of Disposition
A Loss of Realizable Entity in which some Independent Continuant ceases to be the bearer of some Disposition.
Laser
A Material Artifact that is designed to emit light coherently through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation.
Gain of Quality
A Gain of Specifically Dependent Continuant in which an Independent Continuant becomes the bearer of some Quality.
Representational Information Content Entity
An Information Content Entity that represents some Entity.
the content of a court transcript represents a courtroom proceeding
the content of a photograph of the Statue of Liberty represents the Statue of Liberty
the content of a video of a sporting event represents that sporting event
Fluid Control Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in processes in which some Artifact is used to control the direction or flow of some fluid.
Payload Capacity
An Artifact Function that inheres in a Vehicle that is designed to transport Payload, and which is typically characterized by the maximum Weight, Mass, or Volume of Payload that the Vehicle can transport.
FM Radio Broadcast Frequency
Frequency Modulation Radio Broadcast Frequency
A Very High Frequency that is between 88 and 108 MHz.
International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Region 2
Financial Value of Property
Property Value
Financial Value that inheres in an material entity that is the object of an Act of Ownership.
Act of Educational Training Acquisition
An Act of Training Acquisition performed by an Agent by acquiring knowledge of a curriculum from an Agent or communication medium that realizes a capacity derived from its affiliation with some Educational Organization.
Act of Training Instruction
An Act of Training performed by an Agent by imparting knowledge to another Agent.
Electric Power Station
Power Plant
A Facility that is designed to generate electrical power.
Heavy Machine Gun
A Mounted Gun that is designed to fire ammunition greater than .50 caliber or 12.7mm ammunition in quick succession from an ammunition belt, and which typically weighs more than 30lbs.
Airport
A Transportation Facility that is designed for launching, receiving, and housing Aircraft.
Blond
A Color that ranges from nearly white to a light greyish yellow
Far Infrared Light Frequency
An Infrared Light Frequency that is between 300 gigahertz and 20 terahertz.
Geographic Feature
An Environmental Feature that is a natural (i.e. not human made) topographical feature having a (relatively) stable location in some Geospatial Region which can be designated by location-specific data.
Patch Receiver
A Radio Receiver that uses a Patch Antenna to intercept radio signals.
Air-Breathing Combustion Engine
A Reaction Engine that functions by drawing a continuous stream of air into and through the Engine where it is compressed, mixed with a Portion of Fuel, ignited, and then expelled as exhaust gas.
Portion of Processed Material
A Material Artifact that is the output of an Act of Artifact Processing.
Reflection Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized by an Artifact participating in a reflection event in which the Artifact causes a change in a wavefront at an interface between the reflecting medium and the transmission medium such that the wavefront returns into the transmission medium.
Road Junction
A Land Transportation Artifact that is designed to enable Ground Vehicles to exit one Road and enter another.
Orientation Observation Artifact Function
Attitude Observation Artifact Function
An Observation Artifact Function that is realized during events in which an Artifact is used to collect information about the Orientation of a specified object or class of objects.
Decade
A Temporal Interval that is equal to a period of ten consecutive Years.
Petrochemical Refinery
A Refinery that is designed for refining crude oil, intermediate petroleum products, or synthetic petroleum into products of value.
Measurement Unit of Pressure
A Measurement Unit that is used as a standard for measurement of Force applied perpendicular to a surface per unit area.
pascal, atmosphere, pound-force per square inch
Fort
A Military Facility that is designed to support the defense of or solidification of rule over some Geospatial Region and its inhabitants.
Electrical Power Storage Artifact Function
Capacitance
An Electrical Artifact Function that is realized during events in which an Artifact is used to store electrical power to be released at a later time.
Coin
A Portion of Cash that consists of a flat, portable, round pieces of metal designed to bear some specified Financial Value.
Act of Espionage
An Act of Intelligence Gathering involving the obtaining of information that is considered secret or confidential without the permission of the holder of the information.
Cellular Telecommunication Network
Cellular Network
Mobile Telecommunication Network
A Wireless Telecommunication Network where the last link between the network and the end user is wireless and is distributed over service areas called cells.
Submachine Gun
An Long Gun that is designed to be have automatic-fire functionality, fire pistol-caliber ammunition that is magazine-fed, and which is usually smaller than other automatic firearms.
Common Stock
Stock that entitles its holder to voting on corporate decisions.
Hospital
A Healthcare Facility that is designed to provide patient treatment with specialized staff and equipment.
Bridge
A Land Transportation Artifact that is designed to span physical obstacles without closing the way underneath to enable Persons or Ground Vehicles to pass over the obstacles.
Measurement Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized during events in which an Artifact is used to measure one or more features of a specified object or class of objects.
Interval Estimate Information Content Entity
Interval Estimate
Interval Estimate Measurement Information Content Entity
An Estimate Information Content Entity that consists of an interval of possible (or probable) values for the measured entity.
Commercial Facility
A Facility that is designed for buying and selling goods and services, especially on a large scale.
Artifact Model Name
A Designative Information Content Entity that designates some Artifact Model.
Long Gun
A Firearm that is designed to have a longer barrel than a Hand Gun and to be fired while braced against the shoulder.
Secondary Cell Electric Battery
Rechargeable Battery
Secondary Cell Battery
An Electric Battery that is designed to be recharged.
Roll Axis
Longitudinal Axis
An Axis of Rotation that passes through the center of an object's Mass from the front to the back of the object as defined by the direction of the object's motion.
Landfill
A Waste Management Facility that is designed for disposing of waste by burial.
The corresponding Wavelength range is 1–0.1 m. Note that the ITU definition of UHF is broader than the definition given by IEEE 521-2002 - IEEE Standard Letter Designations for Radar-Frequency Bands, which sets the frequency range at 300 MHz to 1 GHz.
Ultra High Frequency
ITU Band Number 9
A Microwave Frequency that is between 300 MHz and 3 GHz.
Counter-Clockwise Rotational Motion
Anti-Clockwise Rotation
CCW Rotational Motion
Counter-Clockwise Rotation
A Rotational Motion in which the direction of rotation is toward the left as seen relative to the designated side of the plane of rotation.
the axial rotation of the Earth as seen from above the North Pole
Evening
A Temporal Interval that consists of the temporal regions between when the sun sets (approximately 6:00pm) and when people typically retire to sleep (approximately 9:00pm).
Low Midrange Frequency
A Sonic Frequency that is between 250 and 500 Hz.
Proper Acceleration
An Acceleration of an object relative to a free-fall, or inertial, observer who is momentarily at rest relative to the object being measured (hence, gravity does not cause Proper Acceleration).
Magenta
A Color consisting of red and blue hues.
Instances of this class are not proper Delimiting Domains, but in some cases may have an organization that exercises some control over the region, such as the homeowners' association for a neighborhood.
Division of Delimiting Domain
A Geospatial Region that is a fiat division of a Delimiting Domain and not a Delimiting Domain.
Flatbush, French Quarter, Western New York, Texas Panhandle, Greater Montreal Area of Quebec, Pacific Northwest, southwest area of Al Anbar Province, Northern Iraq.
Private Network Telephone Call
A Telephone Call transmitted over a network where a closed group of telephones are connected primarily to each other and use a gateway to reach the outside world, usually used inside companies and call centers (a.k.a. private branch exchange (PBX)).
Reference Time
Epoch
Epoch Time
Reference Date
A Temporal Instant specified as the origin for which other Temporal Regions are measured or identified.
Propelling Nozzle
Jet Nozzle
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.
Surface Tension
A Disposition that inheres in a liquid and is realized when the cohesive forces of the molecules in the bearer at the surface are greater than the adhesive forces of the molecules in the surrounding air.
Document Form
A Document having Document Fields as parts in which to write or select prescribed content.
Act of Religious Training Instruction
An Act of Training Instruction performed by an Agent who realizes a capacity derived from the Agent's affiliation with some Religious Organization by imparting knowledge of the tenets and/or practices of a religion to an Agent either directly or indirectly through some communication medium.
Scramjet Engine
Scramjet
Supersonic Combusting Ramjet
An Air-Breathing Jet Engine that uses the forward motion of the Engine to compress incoming air at supersonic speeds before adding the fuel and constantly combusting the mixture then expelling the exhaust out through the rear Propelling Nozzle to generate Thrust.
Radio Interference
A Natural Process in which a radio signal is disrupted, whether unintentionally or as the result of an Act of Radio Jamming, Act of Radio Spoofing, or similar Planned Act.
Poison Artifact Function
A Damaging Artifact Function that is realized in a process which causes illness in, or the death of, a living thing.
Precision-Guided Missile
Missile
A Portion of Ammunition that is designed to be a self-propelled and precision-guided projectile that delivers some payload (explosive or other) over relatively long distances.
Set of Eyes
A Bodily Component that consists of two or more Eyes that are part of a single Agent.
There are a variety of photometric measurements, such as luminous flux/power or luminous intensity, whose units are lumen and candela respectively, which attempt to describe properties associated with the perception of light. These are weighted measurements, typically by the luminosity function, as thus exist on the side of information content. It is a point of further development to add the needed intrinsic properties of radiation that such measurements are about.
Luminescent Property
An Optical Property that inheres in a bearer in virtue of that bearer's capacity to emit visible light, but which isn't the result of the bearer being heated.
Loss of Quality
A Loss of Specifically Dependent Continuant in which some Independent Continuant ceases to be the bearer of some Quality.
Act of Residing
An Act of Inhabitancy in which a Person lives in a dwelling permanently or for an extended period of time.
Pressurization Control Artifact Function
A Ventilation Control Artifact Function that is realized by processes in which some Artifact is used to control the partial pressure of air in some space.
Geospatial Polygon
A Geospatial Line String that has at least three vertices where the connecting lines form a closed loop.
EAN-8 Barcode
An EAN Barcode that consists of 8 numerical digits and is used to designate products at the point of sale.
Stasis of Mission Capability
A Stasis of Realizable Entity that holds during a temporal interval when a Continuant's capability (or lack thereof) to perform its intended Functions, tasks, or Objectives remains at a relatively constant level.
Motion
A Natural Process in which a Continuant changes its Location or Spatial Orientation over some Temporal Interval.
Vehicle Frame
A Material Artifact that is designed to be the main supporting structure of some Vehicle.
Portion of Liquid Fuel
A Portion of Fuel that is stored in a liquid state.
Ultrasonic Frequency
A Sound Frequency that is greater than 20 kHz.
Radiation Reflectivity
An Electromagnetic Radiation Property that inheres in a bearer in virtue of the capacity of that bearer to scatter or reflect electromagnetic radiation of a given frequency.
Beverage Antenna
A Wire Antenna that consists of a horizontal wire one-half to two wavelengths long that is suspended above the ground with one end attached to the receiver feedline and the other grounded and which is typically used in the low and medium frequency radio bands.
Adapted from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverage_antenna
Spacecraft
A Vehicle that is designed to convey passengers, cargo, or equipment from one location to another by Spaceflight.
Flywheel
A Material Artifact that is designed to store rotational energy such that it has a significant moment of inertia which enables it to resist changes in rotational speed.
The disposition will typically be a function of an artifact, which is often designed to be part of some Infrastructure system. But not always. In some cases an entity may be repurposed to be an element of some Infrastructure. In those cases it is a capability of that entity that supports the functioning of the system.
Infrastructure Role
A Role that inheres in the bearer of a Disposition and has been assigned to an Infrastructure System such that the realization of that Disposition is sometimes part of the functioning of the Infrastructure System.
Violet
A Color that is lower than Blue with a wavelength in the visible spectrum typically between 400 and 450 nanometers.
Facsimile Transmission
Act of Facsimile Transmission
Act of Faxing
An Act of Communication by Media in which the Information Content Entity that inheres in a Document is transmitted over a Telephone Network.
Act of Entertainment
A Planned Act consisting of any activity which provides a diversion or permits people to amuse themselves.
Radio Receiver
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.
Sidereal Time is the angle measured from an observer's meridian along the celestial equator to the Great Circle that passes through the March equinox and both poles. This angle is usually expressed in Hours, Minutes, and Seconds.
Sidereal Time Reference System
A Temporal Reference System that is based on Earth's rate of rotation measured relative to one or more fixed Stars (rather than the Sun).
Act of Violence
A Planned Act of causing harm to oneself or to another through the use of physical or verbal force.
Electromagnetic Communication Artifact Function
A Communication Artifact Function that is realized in a process that conveys meaningful signs by means of electromagnetic radiation.
Data Range Interval Estimate Information Content Entity
A Ratio Measurement Information Content Entity that is a measurement of a set of values and is equal to the absolute difference between the largest value and the smallest value in the set.
Portion of Ammunition
A Weapon that is designed to inflict harm, damage, or incapacity by being projected toward its target at a significant Velocity.
Portion of Paper
An Information Medium Artifact that is designed to bear some Information Content Entity by means of pressing together moist fibres of cellulose pulp derived from wood, rags, or grasses, and drying them into flexible sheets.
Government Domain
A Delimiting Domain that delimits the authority of a Government to exercise its control within the bounded area.
Damaging Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in a process in which the structural integrity of an entity is impaired.
Multi-Second Temporal Interval
A one-dimensional temporal region that is measured in Seconds and spans at least one Second.
Full Motion Video Imaging Artifact Function
An Imaging Artifact Function that inheres in Artifacts that are designed to produce video of entities that is of high enough quality to make the represented motion appear continuous to human viewers.
Information Line
An Information Bearing Artifact that consists of a single line or row of some larger Information Bearing Artifact of which it is a part.
a line in a computer file that bears a portion of code for some computer program
Hydraulic Power Source
A Power Source that is designed to generate, control, or transmit power by means of pressurized liquid.
Act of Data Transformation
An Act of Information Processing in which an algorithm is executed to act upon one or more input Information Content Entities into one or more output Information Content Entities.
It is not a requirement that the output Information Content Entity(ies) be qualitatively distinct from the input(s) as a result of an Act of Data Transformation, though doing so is typically the goal of performing this Act. Consider, for example, selecting a column in an Excel spreadsheet then executing the \"Remove Duplicates\" Algorithm on it. The intent is to remove rows in that column containing duplicate content. If no duplicate values are present, the information in the column remains unchanged but an Act of Data Transformation was nonetheless performed.
Bond
A Financial Instrument that is designed to secure an Agent's debt for the holders of that debt.
Solvent Artifact Function
A Chemical Reaction Artifact Function that is realized in the dissolving of other substances (namely, solutes) without change in the former's chemical structure.
Counterfeit Legal Instrument
A Counterfeit Instrument that is designed to be a fake replica of some genuine Legal Instrument.
Examples: agreeing, betting, guaranteeing, inviting, offering, promising, swearing, volunteering
Act of Commissive Communication
An Act of Communication that commits a speaker to some future action.
Measurement Information Content Entity
Measurement ICE
A Descriptive Information Content Entity that describes the extent, dimensions, quantity, or quality of an Entity relative to some standard.
County
A Government Domain that is part of either a First-Order or Second-Order Administrative Region.
Terrorist Training Camp
A Training Camp designed to teach students methods of terrorism.
Multi-Minute Temporal Interval
A one-dimensional temporal region that is measured in Minutes and spans at least one Minute.
Midrange Frequency
A Sonic Frequency that is between 500 Hz and 2 kHz.
Reaction Mass
Working Mass
A Material Entity against which a Propulsion System operates in order to produce Acceleration.
Communication Relay Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized during events in which an Artifact is used to first receive and then transmit information from one Artifact to another for the purpose of communiction.
Hard X-ray Frequency
An X-Ray Frequency that is between 3 and 30 exahertz.
Wireless Network Telephone Call
A Telephone Call transmitted over a network where the telephones are mobile and can move anywhere within the coverage area.
Portion of Gelatinous Propellant
A Portion of Propellant that is stored in a gelatinous state.
Rocket Launcher
A Projectile Launcher that is designed to launch one or more Unguided Rockets.
Electromagnetic Shielding Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in a process in which an electromagnetic field is blocked by barriers made of conductive or magnetic materials.
Language
A Directive Information Content Entity that prescribes a canonical format for communication.
Estimate Information Content Entity
Estimate
Estimate Measurement Information Content Entity
Estimated Value
A Measurement Information Content Entity that is a measurement of an entity based on partial information about that entity or an appropriately similar entity.
Roll Orientation
Roll
A Spatial Orientation of an Object relative to its Roll Axis.
Railway Crossing
Level Crossing
A Land Transportation Artifact that is designed to enable Persons or Ground Vehicles to cross a Railway when traveling along a road or path that is perpendicular to and at the same elevation as the Railway at the point where they overlap.
Digital Storage Device
An Information Medium Artifact that is designed to bear some Information Content Entity by means of recording that information in digital (binary) format.
Members of organizations are either Organizations themselves or individual Persons. Members can bear specific Organization Member Roles that are determined in the organization rules. The organization rules also determine how decisions are made on behalf of the Organization by the organization members.
Organization
A Group of Agents which can be the bearer of roles, has members, and has a set of organization rules.
Triple Inertial Navigation System
Triple INS
An Inertial Navigation System that is designed to use three redundant computers to continuously calculate via dead reckoning the position, orientation, and velocity of a moving object without the need for external references, in such a way that eliminates the need for a navigator.
Phase Angle
Orbital Phase Angle
A Relational Quality that is the angle between the light incident onto an observed Object and the light reflected from the Object.
Social Network
A Group of Agents that are connected in dyadic relations by similar personal or career interests, activities, backgrounds, or real-life connections.
Spinning Motion
A Rotational Motion of an Object around an Axis of Rotation that passes through the Object's Center of Mass.
A Vehicle that is designed to travel through air or space and which obtains Thrust from a Rocket Engine.
Color Hue
An Optical Property that inheres in a bearer in virtue of its capacity to reflect a dominant wavelength of the visible light spectrum, which is typically divided up into 6 to 8 ranges.
Navigation System
A Material Artifact that is designed to enable an Agent or Artifact to determine the position or direction of some object, usually for the purpose of monitoring or controlling the movement of some Vehicle from one place to another.
Denture
A Prosthesis that is designed to replace missing teeth.
Blue
A Color that is between Cyan and Violet with a wavelength in the visible spectrum typically between 450 to 490 nanometers.
Telephone Call
Act of Telephone Calling
An Act of Communciation by Media transmitted over a telephone network to two or more Persons.
Operational Stasis
A Stasis of Artifact Operationality that holds during a Temporal Interval when an Artifact maintains its designed set of Artifact Functions (or at least maintains its primary functions).
Radio Antenna
A Bidirectional Transducer that is designed to convert electric power into radio waves, and radio waves into electric power.
Fatigability
A Realizable Entity that is realized when its bearer loses strength and tires quickly.
This class should be used to demarcate the start of the temporal interval (through the occurs_on property) that the Entity bears the Role.
Gain of Role
A Gain of Realizable Entity in which some Independent Continuant becomes bearer of some Role.
Geospatial Error Region
A One-Dimensional Geospatial Boundary that bounds some Geospatial Region according to probability estimations for locating some object within it.
Many Acts of Manufacturing and Construction involve one or more Acts of Artifact Assembly, but Acts of Artifact Assembly can also occur in isolation from these activities.
Act of Artifact Assembly
An Act of Artifact Processing wherein a new Artifact is created by fitting component parts together.
putting together a piece of furniture purchased from Ikea
Anthropogenic Feature
An Environmental Feature that is related to or is the result of the influence of human beings on the environment.
In American-English, the term 'Railcar' is often used in a broader sense that is interchangeable with 'Railroad Car'.
Railcar
A Rail Transport Vehicle that consists of a single self-propelled Vehicle that is not a Train, is designed to transport passengers, and which may also be designed to connect to other Railcars to form a Train.
Protruding
A Shape Quality inhering in a part of an object in virtue of the part extending out above or beyond the surface of the object.
Structural Support Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized by an Artifact providing physical support to another object.
Trail
A Land Transportation Artifact that is designed to enable transport through rough country, such as a forest or moor.
Size Quality
A Quality that inheres in a bearer in virtue of the bearer's extension in one or more dimensions.
Delimiting Domain
A Geospatial Region that delimits the authority of an Organization to exercise its control within the bounded area.
Night
A Temporal Interval that consists of the temporal regions between when people typically retire to sleep (approximately 9:00pm) and when the sun dawns (approximately 6:00am).
Priority Scale
A Reference System that is designed to be used to rank or identify the importance of entities of the specified type.
Multi-Year Temporal Interval
A one-dimensional temporal region that is measured in Years and spans at least one Year.
Optical Lens
Lens
An Optical Instrument that is designed to focus or disperse a beam of light entering the lens by means of refraction.
The corresponding Wavelength range is 100–10 m
High Frequency
ITU Band Number 7
A Radio Frequency that is between 3 and 30 MHz.
UPC-E Barcode
A UPC Barcode that consists of 6 numerical digits.
Retail Artifact Function
A Service Artifact Function that is realized in processes of selling goods or merchandise in small or individual lots for direct consumption by persons or organizations.
Lifting Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized by processes in which some Artifact is used to lift some object.
Female Sex
A Biological Sex inhering in an individual that only produces gametes that can be fertilized by male gametes.
Stasis of Artifact Operationality
A Stasis of Realizable Entity that holds during a Temporal Interval when an Artifact's designed set of Artifact Functions (or at least its primary functions) or the realizations of those functions remain unchanged.
Increase of Specifically Dependent Continuant
An Increase of Dependent Continuant in which some Independent Continuant has an increase of some Specifically Dependent Continuant that it bears.
Funeral
Act of Funeral Ceremony
An Act of Ceremony in which the Life of a Person who has died is celebrated, sanctified, or remembered.
Periscope
An Optical Instrument that is designed to enable observation of an object that is located over, around, or through another object, obstacle, or condition that prevents direct line-of-sight observation from the observer's current position.
Medium Machine Gun
A Mounted Gun that is designed to fire full-power rifle Cartridges (less than .50 caliber or 12.7mm) in quick succession from an ammunition belt, and which typically weighs 22-30 lbs.
Signal Processing Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in the process of transferring or processing information contained in signals.
Delta-v is not equivalent to and should not be confused with Acceleration, which is the rate of change of Velocity.
Delta-v
Change in Velocity
DeltaV
A Process Profile that is the total change in Velocity of an object's Motion.
Opaque
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.
Physically Powered Engine
Physical Engine
An Engine that is designed to convert potential or kinetic energy into mechanical energy.
Solar Panel System
Photovoltaic System
Solar Array
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.
Dish Receiver
A Radio Receiver that uses a Parabolic (or Dish) Antenna to intercept radio signals.
Process Requirement
Duty
Obligation
A Process Regulation that requires some Process.
Yellow
A Color that is between Orange and Green with a wavelength in the visible spectrum typically between 560 to 590 nanometers.
Act of Employment
An Act of Association wherein an Organization assigns a set of activities to some Person to be performed in exchange for financial compensation.
Longitudinal Wave Profile
Compression Wave
Longitudinal Wave
A Wave Process Profile in which the displacement of participating particles is parallel to the direction of the Wave Process' propogation such that the particles alternate between participating in processes of compression and rarefaction as they participate in individual Wave Processes.
Journal Article
An Information Bearing Artifact that is designed to bear a specific brief composition on a specific topic as part of a Journal Issue.
Alkaline Electric Battery
A Primary Cell Electric Battery that has a Zinc anode and Manganese (IV) oxide cathode.
Rhombic Antenna
A Wire Antenna that consists of one to three parallel wires suspended above the ground by poles or towers at each vertex in a rhombic shape with each of the four sides being the same length (typically at least one wavelength or longer).
Brilliance Frequency
A Sonic Frequency that is between 6 and 20 kHz.
In all cases, to possess something, an agent must have an intention to possess it.
Act of Possession
A Planned Act in which an agent intentionally exercises control towards a thing.
Crushing Artifact Function
A Damaging Artifact Function that is realized in a process in which the structural integrity of an entity is impaired because of significant pressure.
Neutralization Artifact Function
A Chemical Reaction Artifact Function that is realized in a process in which an acid and a base react quantitatively with each other.
Military Time Zone Identifier
A Time Zone Identifier that designates a spatial region where the local time is calculated according to the specified offset from Zulu time, which has no offset from Coordinated Universal Time.
Act of Suicide
Suicide
An Act of Violence in which some Agent intentionally and voluntarily causes their own death.
Birth
A Natural Process of bringing forth offspring.
Initialism
An Abbreviated Name that consists of the initial letters of some words (or syllables) in a Designative Name, and in which each letter is pronounced separately.
Group of Organizations
A Group of Agents that has only Organizations as parts.
Radio Communication Artifact Function
An Electromagnetic Communication Artifact Function that is realized in a process that conveys meaningful signs by means of radio waves.
Sensor Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in processes wherein its bearer is used to produce an output signal which reliably corresponds to changes in the artifact's environment.
Actuator
A Transducer that is designed to convert some control signal into mechanical motion.
Document Field
An Information Bearing Entity that is a part of some document into which bearers of prescribed information can be written or selected.
Act of Issuing Mass Media Article
An Act of Mass Media Communication involving sending forth, distributing, or putting into circulation a non-fictional essay, especially one included with others in a newspaper, magazine, or journal.
PDF417 Code
A Two-Dimensional Barcode that is used in applications that require the storage of huge amounts of data.
Under Active Control
An Active Stasis during which an Artifact participates in an Act of Artifact Employment.
Telecommunication Endpoint
A Telecommunication Network Node that connects a Telecommunication Terminal to a Telecommunication Network.
A Telecommunication Terminal is an end user device such as a Telephone, fax machine, or Computer.
Artificial Eye
A Prosthesis that is designed to replace a missing eye.
Cabin Pressurization Control System
An Environment Control System that is designed to control the process in which conditioned air is pumped into the Cabin of some Aircraft or Spacecraft in order to create a safe and comfortable environment for passengers and crew flying at high altitudes.
Interior Lighting System
A Lighting System that is designed to emit light within the interior of some area.
Act of Intelligence Gathering
A Planned Act of producing and/or gathering information by a government or other Organization to guide decisions and actions by answering questions or obtaining advance warning of events and movements deemed to be important or otherwise relevant.
Propulsion Artifact Function
A Motion Artifact Function that is realized in a process in which the bearer of the function creates force leading to an entity's movement.
Fuel Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in processes in which a Portion of Fuel is reacted with other substances in order to release chemical or nuclear energy to be used for heat or for work.
Revolver
A Hand Gun having a number of firing chambers in a revolving cylinder, where each chamber in the cylinder can be loaded with a single Cartridge.
Insecticide Artifact Function
A Pesticide Artifact Function that is realized in a process that causes harm to, or the death of, an insect.
Note, the term 'accuracy' is avoided due to its ambiguity between: correctness-of-performance ('Reliability Measurement Information Content Entity'), correctness-of-information (see: 'Veracity Measurement Information Content Entity'), and adherance-to-expectations (see: 'Deviation Measurement Information Content Entity').
Reliability Measurement Information Content Entity
Accuracy of Process
Reliability Measurement
A Measurement Information Content Entity that is a measurement of the extent to which an entity can consistently produce an outcome.
Reliability concerns both a measure of past performance and the expectation that future performance will conform to the range of past performances.
Nuclear Storage Depot
A Storage Facility that is designed to store nuclear material.
Port
A Transportation Facility that is designed to contain harbors for docking Watercraft and for transfering people or cargo to and from land.
Portion of Atmosphere
A fiat object part of the layer of gas or layers of gases that envelop a natural satellite.
Code 39 Barcode
A One-Dimensional Barcode that consists of 39 characters that are numbers 0-9, capital letters A-Z, or the symbols -.$/+% and space and is used primarily in automotive and defense industries.
Act of Identifying
An Act of Representative Communication performed by asserting who or what a particular person or thing is.
Person
Human
An Animal that is a member of the species Homo sapiens.
Act of Issuing Mass Media Documentary
An Act of Mass Media Communication involving sending forth, distributing, or putting into circulation information that provides a factual record or report.
Code 128 Barcode
A One-Dimensional Barcode that consists of up to 128 ASCII characters and is used primarily in supply chains.
Public Address System
PA System
A Communication System that is designed to allow a Person to speak to a large audience.
Act of Vocational Training Instruction
An Act of Training Instruction performed by an Agent who realizes a capacity derived from the Agent's affiliation with a Vocational School, Technical School, Trade Organization, or Industry Educational Program Provider by imparting skills required for a specific occupation in industry, agriculture or trade to an Agent either directly or indirectly through some communication medium.
Act of Propaganda
An Act of Deceptive Communication Propaganda intended to influence the attitude of a mass audience toward some cause or position by presenting facts selectively (thus possibly lying by omission) or by using loaded messages to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented.
ISBN Barcode
An EAN Barcode that is used to designate books.
Act of Warning
An Act of Directive Communication performed by indicating a possible or impending danger, problem, or other unpleasant situation.
Howitzer
A Cannon that is designed to have a relatively short barrel and to use relatively small propellant charges to propel projectiles in relatively high trajectories with a steep angle of descent.
Wired Communication Relay Artifact Function
A Communication Relay Artifact Function that is realized during events in which an Artifact is used to first receive and then transmit information by means of wires from one Artifact to another for the purpose of communiction.
Act of Murder
An Act of Homicide with malice aforethought.
Sensor Modality Function
A Sensor Artifact Function that inheres in some Sensor in virtue of the type of energy the Sensor is capable of converting into an output signal.
Infrasonic Frequency
A Sound Frequency that is below 20 Hz.
Nominal Speed Artifact Function
A Speed Artifact Function that is realized in some process in which the Artifact bearing the Artifact Function attains a speed that does not exceed some specified tolerance of that Artifact.
Carrier Air Wing
A Military Force that is trained and equipped to conduct air operations while embarked on an aircraft carrier.
Red
A Color that is above Orange with a wavelength in the visible spectrum typically between 635 to 700 nanometers.
Stock
A Financial Instrument that entitles holders to an ownership interest (equity) in the specified Incorporated Organization.
Vibration Motion
Mechanical Oscillation
Oscillation Motion
Vibration
A Motion wherein some participant repetitively deviates from a central location to two surrounding locations.
Flat
A Shape Quality inhering in a bearer in virtue of the bearer having a horizontal border without a significant deviation.
Emulsifier Artifact Function
A Chemical Reaction Artifact Function that is realized in a process in which two or more liquids that are normally immiscible are mixed.
Hydraulic Valve
A Valve that is designed to regulate, direct, or control the flow of a liquid by opening, closing, or partially obstructing various passageways.
Refinery
A Factory that is designed for refining raw materials into products of value.
Crew
A Group of Persons that bear Roles realized by the operation of the specified Vehicle.
Revolving Motion
A Rotational Motion of an Object around an Axis of Rotation that is located externally to the Site occupied by the Object.
Waveform
A Wave Process Profile that is the shape of the Wave Cycles of the Wave Process when depicted in a visual graph.
Maintenance Facility
A Facility that is designed to be used to perform actions to maintain or improve the state of some property or equipment.
Round Shot
A Portion of Ammunition that is designed to be a solid projectile without explosive charge and to be fired from a cannon.
Damaged Stasis
Compromised
Damaged
Injured
A Stasis of Specifically Dependent Continuant in which some Independent Continuant bears a Quality or Realizable Entity that has suffered impairment (i.e., a decrease or loss) due to a previous action or event such that the Independent Continuant is now of lesser value, usefulness, or functionality.
This class can be used to instantiate instances that might otherwise be treated by defined classes such as Damaged Vehicle or Wounded Person. The Independent Continuant and Quality or Realizable Entity are participants of the stasis which can in turn be related to the temporal interval via the occurs on property.
Measurement Unit of Length
A Measurement Unit that is used as a standard for measurement of one-dimensional regions or Geospatial Regions.
Radiation Absorptivity
An Electromagnetic Radiation Property that inheres in a bearer in virtue of the capacity of that bearer to absorb electromagnetic radiation of a given frequency.
Bus
A Ground Motor Vehicle that is designed to transport a large number of people and to travel on six or more tired wheels.
Perimeter
A One Dimensional Extent that inheres in a bearer in virtue of the extent of a boundary which encloses the bearer.
Three Dimensional Extent
Volume
A Size Quality that inheres in a bearer in virtue of the bearer's extension in three dimensions.
Financial Facility
A Facility that is designed to support the management of money.
Pitch Orientation
A Spatial Orientation of an Object relative to its Pitch Axis.
Military Headquarters Facility
A Military Facility that is designed for military administration and coordination.
Document
An Information Bearing Artifact that is designed to bear some specific Information Content Entity in a series of paragraphs of text or diagrams in the form of physical pieces of paper or an electronic word processor file.
Wetting Agent Artifact Function
A Surfactant Artifact Function that is realized in a process that reduces the water repellent tendency of a substance thereby allowing it to become wet.
Patch Antenna
Microstrip Patch Antenna
Rectangular Microstrip Antenna
A Radio Antenna that consists of a flat rectangular sheet (or patch) of metal mounted over a larger sheet of metal called a ground plane which is typically contained inside a plastic radome for protection and is small enough that it can be mounted on a flat surface.
Service Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in a process of providing intangible goods to consumers.
Civil Organization
An Organization that is not commercial or military and is the bearer of a Civilian Role.
Position Observation Artifact Function
An Observation Artifact Function that is realized during events in which an Artifact is used to collect information about the position of a specified object or class of objects.
Dimension Specification
An Quality Specification that prescribes some Size Quality.
Loss of Function
A Loss of Disposition in which some Independent Continuant ceases to be the bearer of some Function.
Observation Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized during events in which an Artifact is used to collect information about a specified object or class of objects.
Measurement Unit of Mass Flow Rate
A Measurement Unit of Flow that is used as a standard for measurement of the rate at which the Mass of a substance passes per unit time.
kilogram per second, slug per second, pound per second
Sewage Treatment Facility
A Waste Management Facility that is designed for removing contaminants from wastewater, especially sewage.
Lot Number
A Code Identifier that designates a particular quantity or lot of material from a single manufacturer.
Covering Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in a process in which an entity is covered.
Aircraft Manufacturing Facility
A Factory that is designed to manufacture Aircraft.
Paramilitary Force
An Armed Force whose organizational structure, training, subculture, and (often) function are similar to those of a professional Military, and which is not included as part of a Government's formal Armed Forces.
Article of Clothing
A Material Artifact that is designed to cover some portion of a body.
Legal System Act
A Planned Act performed by an Agent that realizes their role within the context of a legal system of some jurisdiction.
Waste Management Facility
A Facility that is designed for managing waste for some portion of the waste's existence.
Gimbal
An Equipment Mount that consists of a pivoted support that allows an Artifact to Rotate about one or more Axes.
Measurement Unit of Volume
A Measurement Unit that is used as a standard for measurement of sites or three-dimensional regions or Geospatial Regions.
Yaw Orientation
Yaw
A Spatial Orientation of an Object relative to its Yaw Axis.
Tank firepower is normally provided by a large-caliber main gun mounted in a rotating turret, which is supported by secondary machine guns. A tank's heavy armour and all-terrain mobility provide protection for both the tank and its crew, allowing it to perform all primary tasks of the armoured troops on the battlefield.
Tank
An Armored Fighting Vehicle that is designed to carry heavy firepower, have a powerful Engine, and travel on one or more continuous tracks such that it is suitable for front-line combat and can provide operational maneuverability as well as tactical offensive and defensive capabilities.
Radio Transceiver
A Radio Communication Instrument that is an electronic device composed of both a Radio Transmitter and a Radio Receiver that share common circuitry or a single housing.
Lead Acid Electric Battery
A Secondary Cell Electric Battery that has a lead anode and lead oxide cathode.
For the most part Generically Dependent Continuants do not inhere in their bearers over some continuous scale. The primary exception is religion and this class allows annotation of those cases where an Agent is described as becoming less religious. Other cases would include the decrease of an organization's bearing of some objective.
Decrease of Generically Dependent Continuant
A Decrease of Dependent Continuant in which some Independent Continuant has a decrease in the level of a Generically Dependent Continuant that it bears.
Bearing Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in processes in which the Artifact constrains relative motion to only the desired motion, and reduces friction between moving parts.
Process Regulation
A Directive Information Content Entity that prescribes an Process as required, prohibited, or permitted, and is the output of an Process which realizes some Authority Role.
Although regulations often regulate processes which involve agents--as the regulating or regulated participant--it is unclear how causally active an agents need to be in those regulated processes. For example, it is not clear how causally active a human agent is in the process of a traffic light regulating the motion of a self-driving vehicle.
Act of Renting
An Act of Purchasing wherein a Financial Instrument is used by an Agent (the Renter) as a payment to acquire temporary possession or use of a good or property that is owned or controlled by another Agent (the Seller).
Land Transportation Artifact
A Transportation Artifact that is fixed in place and designed to bear a Function, the realization of which is sometimes part of a process moving Vehicles and Agents from one location to another via land.
Social Act
A Planned Act having an objective that affects, is performed by, or is performed on behalf of, a community or group of Persons.
Temporal Reference System
Temporal Reference Frame
Time Scale
A Reference System that describes a set of standards for measuring time as well as understanding the context of and organizing temporal data.
Education Artifact Function
A Service Artifact Function that is realized in processes of transmiting accumulated knowledge skills and values from one generation to another.
Telemetry Process
A Mechanical Process that is highly automated and in which measurements are made or other data is collected and transmitted to receiving equipment to facilitate the monitoring of environmental conditions or equipment parameters at a remote or inaccessible location.
using a GPS tag to track a shark's migratory pattern
using a portable cardiac monitor to remotely collect data on a patient's heart activity (biotelemetry)
Legal Name
A Proper Name that is an official name for the designated entity as determined by a Government or court of law.
Extreme Ultraviolet Light Frequency
An Ultraviolet Light Frequency that is between 3 and 30 petahertz.
Rosy
A Color consisting of red hue and yellow hue and high brightness.
Act of Purchasing
An Act of Financial Instrument Use wherein a Financial Instrument is used by an Agent (the Purchaser) to acquire a good or service from another Agent (the Provider).
Government
An Organization that is the highest legitimate authority delimited by some Delimiting Domain and that exercises executive, legislative, or judicial authority in that Domain.
Highest legitimate authority should not be confused with highest legitimate authority of a particular kind. For example, while the judicial branch of the United States government has the highest judicial authority in a Delimiting Domain, it is not the highest legitimate authority delimited by that domain. The combination of executive, judicial, and legislative branches is higher because it wields more legitimate authority than any branch on its own.
Importantly, the definition states "highest legitimate authority delimited by some Delimiting Domain" and not "highest legitimate authority in some Delimiting Domain." The government of Wales is the highest legitimate authority delimited by some Delimiting Domain but it is not the highest legitimate authority in that domain, which would be the government of the United Kingdom.
The relation between the owner and property may be private, collective, or common and the property may be objects, land, real estate, or intellectual property.
Act of Ownership
An Act of Possession that includes an agent having certain rights and duties over the property owned.
Infrared Light Frequency
An Electromagnetic Radiation Frequency of some Electromagnetic Wave that is between 300 gigahertz and 430 tetrahertz.
Timbre
A Sound Process Profile that is characterized by the variation, spectrum, or envelope of translated sound waves, typically on a continuum from dull or dark to bright.
Act of Walking
An Act of Travel that proceeds by foot.
Calendar Date Identifier
A Date Identifier that designates some Day by using a combination of Day, Week, Month, or Year Identifiers formatted according to an implementation of a Calendar System.
Portion of Geosphere
A fiat object part that is composed of one or more portions of the atmosphere, cryosphere, hydrosphere, or lithosphere
Infantry Fighting Vehicle
An Armored Fighting Vehicle that is designed to carry infantry into battle and to provide fire support for them.
Infantry Fighting Vehicles (IFVs) are differentiated from Armored Personnel Carriers (APCs) because they are designed to give direct fire support to the dismounted infantry and so usually have significantly enhanced armament. IFVs also often have improved armour and firing ports (allowing the infantry to fire personal weapons while mounted).
Circuit Breaker
A Material Artifact that is designed to protect an electrical circuit from damage caused by excess current from an overload or short circuit.
Biological Depot
A Storage Facility that is designed to store biological agents.
Measurement Unit of Impulse
A Measurement Unit that is used as a standard for measurement of the integral of a Force applied to a portion of matter over a temporal interval.
Legal Instrument
A Material Artifact that is designed as a formally executed written document that can be formally attributed to its author, records and formally expresses a legally enforceable act, process, or contractual duty, obligation, or right, and therefore evidences that act, process, or agreement.
Behavior
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.
For an object in motion, its Three-Dimensional Position is part of its Three-Dimensional Path.
Three-Dimensional Position
A Three-Dimensional Spatial Region that encompasses the (minimal) spatial region in which some object is located at a particular time.
Grey
A Color between white and black colors.
Thermal Control Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized by an Artifact increasing, decreasing, or maintaining the temperature of itself, a part of itself, or another object.
Cartesian Coordinate System
Rectangular Coordinate System
A Spatial Reference System that identifies each point in a spatial region of n-dimensions using an ordered n-tuple of numerical coordinates that are the signed (i.e. positive or negative) distances measured in the same unit of length from the zero point where the fixed perpendicular Coordinate System Axes meet.
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London and has been superseded by Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
Greenwich Mean Time Zone Identifier
A Time Zone Identifier that designates a spatial region where the local time is calculated according to the specified offset from Greenwich Mean Time.
Speed Artifact Function
A Motion Artifact Function that is realized in some process in which its bearer has some speed.
Vermilion
A Color consisting of red and orange hue with a slight amount of gray.
Freight Train Car
Freight Car
A Train Car that is designed to transport cargo.
Increase of Disposition
An Increase of Realizable Entity in which some Independent Continuant has an increase of some Disposition that it bears.
Measurement Unit of Time
A Measurement Unit that is used as a standard for measurement of temporal regions.
School
An Education Facility that is designed to provide learning space and environments for teaching of students under the direction of teachers.
An Act of Manufacturing typically involves the mass production of goods.
Act of Manufacturing
An Act of Artifact Processing wherein Artifacts are created in a Facility for the purpose of being sold to consumers.
Three Dimensional Shape
A Shape Quality that inheres only in a three dimensional entity.
Healing Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in a process in which health is restored to an unbalanced, diseased, or damaged organism.
Gas Processing Facility
A Refinery that is designed for refining natural gas into products of value.
Male Sex
A Biological Sex inhering in an individual whose sex organs contain only male gametes.
Interval Measurement Information Content Entity
A Measurement Information Content Entity that places a Quality of an Entity onto some interval scale having no true zero value.
The sentence "The temperature reached -27 degrees Fahrenheit on January 20, 1985 in Chicago, IL." is the carrier of an interval measurement as 0 degrees on the Fahrenheit scale does not describe absolute zero.
Maximum Speed Artifact Function
A Speed Artifact Function that is realized in some process in which the Artifact bearing the Artifact Function attains the highest speed at which that Artifact is designed to operate.
Powering Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized by processes in which some Artifact is used to supply power to some Artifact.
Subclasses of one dimensional extent are included for usability. It is doubtful any of them can be objectively distinguished (on the side of the bearing entity) without some reference to external properties such as orientation and perspective.
One Dimensional Extent
A Size Quality that inheres in a bearer in virtue of the bearer's extension in one dimension.
Motion Observation Artifact Function
An Observation Artifact Function that is realized during events in which an Artifact is used to collect information about the Motion of a specified object or class of objects.
Rectangular
A Shape Quality inhering in a bearer in virtue of having four sides and four 90 degree angles.
Machine Bearing
A Material Artifact that is designed to constrain relative motion to only desired motion and reduces friction between moving parts.
Electromagnetic Induction Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized by processes in which some Artifact that is used to produce electromotive force across an electrical conductor due to its dynamic interaction with a magnetic field.
Fertilizer Artifact Function
An Enhancing Artifact Function that is realized in processes of supplying soilds or plant tissues with one or more plant nutrients essential to growth.
Bow
A Projectile Launcher that is designed to launch Arrows.
Examples: Baptism, Sentencing a person to imprisonment, Pronouncing a couple husband and wife, Declaring war
Act of Declarative Communication
An Act of Communication that changes the reality in accord with the proposition of the declaration.
Washing Facility
A Facility that is designed to wash personnel or equipment.
Torque
Moment of Force
A Force that is applied to an object in a direction that would tend to cause the object to rotate around an Axis of Rotation and is the rate of change of an object's Angular Momentum.
Gold Color
A Color that resembles a yellow-orange Hue with the added feature of having a metallic shine.
Hospitality Artifact Function
A Service Artifact Function that is realized in processes of accommodation food and beverage meeting and events gaming entertainment and recreation tourism services and visitor information.
Agent Capability
A Realizable Entity that inheres in a Material Entity in virtue of that Material Entity's capacity to realize it in some Planned Act.
Farm
An Agricultural Facility that is designed to produce food and other crops.
Medical Artifact
A Material Artifact that is designed for diagnosing, treating, or preventing disease, disability, or death.
Electronic Cash
A Portion of Cash that consists of Bytes.
Fire Station
Fire Hall
Fire House
A Public Safety Facility that is designed for the storage of firefighting apparatus.
Note that it is important to specify the frequency of electromagnetic radiation when representing a bearer's Opacity since a bearer may be Opaque with respect to electromagnetic radiation of one frequency, but be transparent with respect to electromagnetic radiation of another frequency. Unless otherwise stated, statements about a bearer's Opacity are assumed to be about electromagnetic radiation with a frequency in the visible spectrum.
Opacity
An Electromagnetic Radiation Property that inheres in a bearer in virtue of that bearer's capacity to transmit electromagnetic radiation of a given frequency through the bearer instead of reflecting, scattering, or absorbing electromangentic radiation of that frequency.
Although its basic function remains the same, a Filter can be used in 2 different ways: (1) to allow only the desired entities to pass through (e.g. removing dirt from engine oil); or (2) to allow everything except the desired entities to pass through (e.g. panning for gold).
Filter Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in a process where entities of a specific type or which have specified properties enter it or pass through it.
Haiti Gourde
Yemeni Rial
Mauritania Ouguiya
Minute of Arc Measurement Unit
Arcminute
MOA
amin
arcmin
Kenyan Shilling
Slug Measurement Unit
slug
Erg Measurement Unit
erg
GMT-8
PST
Pacific Standard Time
Tablespoon Measurement Unit
Papua New Guinea Kina
Newfoundland Standard Time
Viet Nam Dong
Centimeter Measurement Unit
Global Area Reference System
Ghana Cedi
Sri Lanka Rupee
South Africa Rand
Kilogram Per Liter Measurement Unit
Offset from Universal Coordinated Time = UTC+2
Bravo Time Zone
Afghanistan Afghani
GMT-2
BET
Brazil Eastern Time
Australian Central Standard Time
Shaft Horsepower Measurement Unit
shp
Offset from Universal Coordinated Time = UTC-11
X-ray Time Zone
Singapore Dollar
Guyana Dollar
Pound Force Measurement Unit
lbf
Offset from Universal Coordinated Time = UTC+0
GMT
Greenwich Mean Time
Milligram Measurement Unit
TT is an astronomical time standard that is a theoretical ideal designed to be free of the irregularities in Earth's rotation and is primarily used for time measurements of astronomical observations made from the surface of Earth. It was formerly called Terrestrial Dynamical Time (TDT), which was formulated to replace Ephemeris Time (ET).
Terrestrial Time
Swiss Franc
Cubic Centimeter Measurement Unit
cm^3
ET is an astronomical time scale that was adopted as a standard in 1952 by the IAU but has since been superseded and is no longer actively used. ET is based on the ephemeris second, which was defined as a fraction of the tropical year for 1900 January 01 as calculated using Newcomb's 1895 tables of the Sun. ET was designed to avoid problems caused by variations in Earth's rotational period and was used for Solar System ephemeris calculations until being replaced by Terrestrial Dynamical Time (TDT) in 1979.
Ephemeris Time
Kilogram-Mole Measurement Unit
kg-mol
kilogram-mole
GMT+5
PLT
Pakistan Lahore Time
Dominican Peso
Offset from Universal Coordinated Time = UTC-6
Sierra Time Zone
Quart Measurement Unit
Deciliter Measurement Unit
Offset from Universal Coordinated Time = UTC+1
Alpha Time Zone
Miles Per Second Measurement Unit
mi/s
Chinese Renminbi
Canadian Dollar
Kilometers Per Hour Measurement Unit
km/h
Gram-Mole Measurement Unit
g-mol
gram-mole
Offset from Universal Coordinated Time = UTC+6
Foxtrot Time Zone
Offset from Universal Coordinated Time = UTC-10
Whiskey Time Zone
Kilogram Force Per Centimeter Square Measurement Unit
Kilogram Per Square Centimeter Measurement Unit
Kilopond Per Centimeter Square Measurement Unit
Mile Measurement Unit
GMT+1
ECT
European Central Time
Colombian Peso
Universal Time 1 D
Liter Measurement Unit
Litre
Square Yard Measurement Unit
yd^2
Twenty-Four-Hour Clock Time System
24-Hour Clock
24-Hour Clock Time System
Military Time
Military Time System
Twenty-Four Hour Clock Time System
Twenty-Four-Hour Clock
A Clock Time System for time keeping in which the Day runs from midnight to midnight and is divided into 24 Hours, indicated by the Hours passed since midnight, from 0 to 23.
GMT-9
AST
Alaska Standard Time
Rwanda Franc
Week Measurement Unit
Albania Lek
Year Measurement Unit
Centiliter Measurement Unit
Mike Time Zone is the same local time as Yankee Time Zone, but is 1 Day (i.e. 24 Hours) ahead of Yankee Time Zone as they are on opposite sides of the International Date Line.
Offset from Universal Coordinated Time = UTC+12
Mike Time Zone
CFP Franc
Malawi Kwacha
Czech Koruna
Volt Measurement Unit
Milliampere Measurement Unit
Indian Rupee
Binary Degree Measurement Unit
Binary Radian
Brad
Offset from Universal Coordinated Time = UTC+11
Lima Time Zone
Bolivia Boliviano
Square Mile Measurement Unit
mi^2
Offset from Universal Coordinated Time = UTC-4
Quebec Time Zone
Costa Rica Colon
Pound Per Second Measurement Unit
lb/s
Mauritius Rupee
TDB is a linear scaling of Barycentric Coordinate Time (TCB) and is a relativistic coordinate time scale used in astronomy as a time standard that accounts for time dilation when calculating Orbits and Ephemerides of Astronomical Bodies and interplanetary Spacecraft in the Solar System. TDB is a successor of Ephemeris Time (ET) and is nearly equivalent to the time scale Teph used for DE405 planetary and lunar ephemerides generated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Barycentric Dynamical Time
Twenty Foot Equivalent Unit
Kilomole Measurement Unit
kilomole
kmol
Uzbekistan Sum
Namibia Dollar
Revolutions Per Day Measurement Unit
r/day
GMT-4
PRT
Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands Time
GMT+10
AET
Australia Eastern Time
Kilometers Per Second Measurement Unit
km/s
Megahertz Measurement Unit
MHz
Square Centimeter Measurement Unit
cm^2
Cubic Millimeter Measurement Unit
mm^3
Euro
Atmosphere Measurement Unit
atm
Kilohertz Measurement Unit
kHz
GMT+4
NET
Near East Time
Kilogram Measurement Unit
Angstrom Measurement Unit
Angstrom
Ångström
Angolan Kwanza
Offset from Universal Coordinated Time = UTC+9
India Time Zone
Macao Pataca
Algerian Dinar
One mole contains exactly 6.02214076×10^23 elementary entities.
Mole Measurement Unit
Bangladesh Taka
Surinamese Dollar
Square Kilometer Measurement Unit
km^2
Peru Nuevo Sol
Offset from Universal Coordinated Time = UTC-7
Tango Time Zone
Radian Measurement Unit
Bulgarian Lev
Universal Time 1 A
Lebanese Pound
Kilonewton Measurement Unit
Yard Measurement Unit
yrd
Sone Measurement Unit
sone
Square Meter Measurement Unit
m^2
Kuwaiti Dinar
Fiji Dollar
Kiloliter Measurement Unit
Offset from Universal Coordinated Time = UTC+5
Echo Time Zone
Tanzania Shilling
Decibel Isotropic Measurement Unit
Decibels Relative to an Isotropic Reference Antenna
Hungary Forint
Newton Meter Measurement Unit
Uruguay Peso
Universal Time 1 F
Lesotho Loti
Brunei Dollar
Belarussian Ruble
Tonga Pa anga
Meters Per Second Measurement Unit
m/s
South Sudanese Pound
Mexican Peso
Laos Kip
Liberian Dollar
Offset from Universal Coordinated Time = UTC-2
Oscar Time Zone
Nicaragua Cordoba Oro
Madagascar Malagasy Ariary
Turkish Lira
Zambia Kwacha
Philippine Peso
Square Foot Measurement Unit
ft^2
Pint Measurement Unit
GMT-11
MIT
Midway Islands Time
Newton Measurement Unit
Mach Measurement Unit
Offset from Universal Coordinated Time = UTC+8
Hotel Time Zone
Kilogram Meter Per Second Measurement Unit
kg m/s
"TCG is a coordinate time standard intended to be used as the independent variable of time for all calculations pertaining to precession, nutation, the Moon, and artificial satellites of the Earth. It is equivalent to the proper time experienced by a clock at rest in a coordinate frame co-moving with the center of the Earth: that is, a clock that performs exactly the same movements as the Earth but is outside the Earth's gravity well. It is therefore not influenced by the gravitational time dilation caused by the Earth." From: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocentric_Coordinate_Time)
Geocentric Coordinate Time
Cubic Meter Per Second Measurement Unit
Botswana Pula
Egyptian Pound
Hour Measurement Unit
GMT+7
VST
Vietnam Standard Time
Sudanese Pound
Second Measurement Unit
UTC is a variant of Universal Time that is calculated by combining Universal Time 1 with International Atomic Time by occasionally adding leap seconds to TAI in order to maintain UTC within 0.9 seconds of UT1. The difference between UTC and UT1 is called DUT1 and always has a value between -0.9 seconds and +0.9 seconds. Coordinated Universal Time is the current basis for civil time and is the reference time for time zones, whose local times are defined based on an offset from UTC.
Coordinated Universal Time
Meters Per Second Per Second Measurement Unit
m/s/s
m/s^2
Tajikistan Somoni
Israel Shekel
GMT+12
NST
New Zealand Standard Time
Paraguay Guarani
Decimeter Measurement Unit
Short Ton Measurement Unit
Net Ton
ton (US)
Swaziland Lilangeni
Democratic Republic Of Congo Franc
Syrian Pound
UT1R is a variant of Universal Time that is a smoothed version of UT1 by filtering out periodic variations due to tidal waves.
Universal Time 1 R
Dyne Measurement Unit
dyn
The Julian Calendar was proposed by Julius Caesar as a reform of the Roman Calendar, took effect on 1 January 46 BC, and was the predominant Calendar System in Europe until being largely replaced by the Gregorian Calendar.
Julian Calendar
A Solar Calendar System that has a regular Year of 365 24-Hour Days divided into 12 Months with a leap day added at the end of February every 4 Years such that the average length of a Julian Year is 365.25 Days.
Cubic Foot Measurement Unit
ft^3
Gram Measurement Unit
GMT+6
BST
Bangladesh Standard Time
GMT-10
HST
Hawaii Standard Time
Pound Foot Measurement Unit
Samoa Tala
Pound Foot Second Square Measurement Unit
New Zealand Dollar
Pascal Measurement Unit
Calorie Measurement Unit
cal
Uganda Shilling
Cambodian Riel
Horsepower Measurement Unit
Decigram Measurement Unit
GMT-5
EST
Eastern Standard Time
IET
Indiana Eastern Standard Time
Watt Measurement Unit
Ounce Measurement Unit
Gram Per Cubic Centimeter Measurement Unit
Kilogram Per Cubic Meter Measurement Unit
GMT+2
EET
Eastern European Time
Day Measurement Unit
Kelvin Measurement Unit
Teaspoon Measurement Unit
Revolutions Per Minute Measurement Unit
r/min
rpm
CFA Franc
Milliliter Measurement Unit
Ukraine Hryvnia
Nepalese Rupee
Liter Per Second Measurement Unit
l/s
Offset from Universal Coordinated Time = UTC-3
Papa Time Zone
The ITRS definition fulfills the following conditions: 1. It is geocentric, the center of mass being defined for the whole earth, including oceans and atmosphere. 2. The unit of length is the metre (SI). This scale is consistent with the TCG time coordinate for a geocentric local frame, in agreement with IAU and IUGG (1991) resolutions. This is obtained by appropriate relativistic modelling. 3. Its orientation was initially given by the BIH orientation at 1984.0. 4. The time evolution of the orientation is ensured by using a no-net-rotation condition with regards to horizontal tectonic motions over the whole earth. From: (https://www.iers.org/IERS/EN/Science/ITRS/ITRS.html)
International Terrestrial Reference System
Universal Transverse Mercator Reference System
Feet Per Second Measurement Unit
ft/s
World Geographic Reference System
Newton Second Per Kilogram Measurement Unit
Ns/kg
Poland Zloty
Bayre Measurement Unit
GMT+9
JST
Japan Standard Time
Cubic Inch Measurement Unit
in^3
TAI is a time standard the values of which are generated by calculating the weighted average of the measurements of more than 400 atomic clocks and is based on the International System of Units (SI) definition of one second equals the time it takes a Cesium-133 atom at the ground state to oscillate exactly 9,192,631,770 times. TAI is extremely precise, but does not perfectly synchronize with Earth times, which is why TAI and UT1 are both used to determine UTC. TAI serves as the main realization of TT.
International Atomic Time
Offset from Universal Coordinated Time = UTC-8
Uniform Time Zone
Kazakhstan Tenge
Ethiopian Birr
North Korean Won
Swedish Krona
Kilogram Per Second Measurement Unit
GMT+11
SST
Solomon Standard Time
Kilometer Measurement Unit
Iran Standard Time
Iran Time
Guinean Franc
United Kingdom Pound
Miles Per Hour Measurement Unit
mi/h
mph
Offset from Universal Coordinated Time = UTC-1
November Time Zone
Degree Measurement Unit
Argentine Peso
Degree Celsius Measurement Unit
Offset from Universal Coordinated Time = UTC-9
Victor Time Zone
Pound-Mole Measurement Unit
lb-mol
lbmol
pound-mole
Gradian Measurement Unit
Gon
Grad
Grade
Thai Baht
Gallon Measurement Unit
gal
Bar Measurement Unit
bar
Kilovolt Ampere Measurement Unit
kVA
Moldovan Leu
GMT-7
MST
Mountain Standard Time
PNT
Phoenix Standard Time
Gambian Dalasi
Nigeria Naira
United States Dollar
Solomon Island Dollar
Macedonian Denar
Pakistani Rupee
Armenian Dram
Romanian Leu
Offset from Universal Coordinated Time = UTC+7
Golf Time Zone
UT0 is a variant of Universal Time that is measured by observing the diurnal motion of stars or extragalactic radio sources at a specific location on Earth. It does not take into consideration distorting factors, in particular polar motion, such that its value will differ based on the location it is measured at.
Universal Time 0
Twelve-Hour Clock Time System
12-Hour Clock
12-Hour Clock Time System
Twelve Hour Clock
Twelve Hour Clock Time System
Twelve-Hour Clock
A Clock Time System for keeping the Time of Day in which the Day runs from midnight to midnight and is divided into two intervals of 12 Hours each, where: the first interval begins at midnight, ends at noon, and is indicated by the suffix 'a.m.'; the second interval begins at noon, ends at midnight, and is indicated by the suffix 'p.m.'; and the midnight and noon Hours are numbered 12 with subsequent Hours numbered 1-11.
HongKong Dollar
Offset from Universal Coordinated Time = UTC-12
Yankee Time Zone is the same local time as Mike Time Zone, but is 1 Day (i.e. 24 Hours) behind Mike Time Zone as they are on opposite sides of the International Date Line.
Yankee Time Zone
Nautical Mile Measurement Unit
nmi
"WGS 84 is an Earth-centered, Earth-fixed terrestrial reference system and geodetic datum. WGS 84 is based on a consistent set of constants and model parameters that describe the Earth's size, shape, and gravity and geomagnetic fields. WGS 84 is the standard U.S. Department of Defense definition of a global reference system for geospatial information and is the reference system for the Global Positioning System (GPS). It is compatible with the International Terrestrial Reference System (ITRS)." From: (http://www.unoosa.org/pdf/icg/2012/template/WGS_84.pdf)
World Geodetic System 1984
Seychelles Rupee
South Korean Won
Vanuatu Vatu
GMT-1
CAT
Central African Time
Bosnia And Herzegovina Convertible Mark
Phon Measurement Unit
phon
Nanometer Measurement Unit
Nanometre
Comoros Franc
Indonesia Rupiah
Myanmar Kyat
Kilogram Meter Square Measurement Unit
Millimeter Measurement Unit
Millibar Measurement Unit
mbar
Cubic Feet Per Second Measurement Unit
ft^3/s
Square Inch Measurement Unit
in^2
Knot Measurement Unit
Feet Per Second Per Second Measurement Unit
ft/s/s
ft/s^2
Earth-Centered Earth-Fixed Coordinate System
Conventional Terrestrial Coordinate System
ECEF
ECR
Earth Centered Earth Fixed
Earth Centered Rotational Coordinate System
Earth-Centered Earth-Fixed
Earth-Centered, Earth-Fixed
A Geospatial and Cartesian Coordinate System that identifies positions using an x-axis, y-axis, and z-axis coordinate where the zero point is the center of the Earth, the z-Axis extends toward the North Pole but does not always coincide exactly with the Earth's Axis of Rotation, the x-Axis extends through the intersection of the Prime Meridian and the Equator, the y-Axis completes the right-handed system, and all three axes are fixed to the Earth such that they rotate along with the Earth.
Mongolia Tugrik
Tunisian Dinar
Gram Per Second Measurement Unit
g/s
Russian Rouble
Joule Measurement Unit
Iranian Rial
Cape Verde Escudo
Newton Second Measurement Unit
N s
Newton second
Trinidad and Tobago Dollar
Teph (the 'eph' is written as subscript) is an ephemeris time argument developed and calculated at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and implemented in a series of numerically integrated Development Ephemerides (DE), including the currently used DE405. Teph is characterized as a relativistic coordinate time that is nearly equivalent to the IAU's definition of TCB, though Teph is not currently an IAU time standard. Teph is used by the JPL to generate the ephemerides it publishes to support spacecraft navigation and astronomy.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory Ephemeris Time Argument
JPL Ephemeris Time
Turn Measurement Unit
Cycle
Full Circle
Revolution
This global main field model provides magnetic field values for any location on Earth, e.g. for navigational purposes (declination) or as a standard for core field subtraction for aeromagnetic surveys. An updated version is adopted by International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA) every 5 years).
International Geomagnetic Reference Field
Alken, P., Thébault, E., Beggan, C.D. et al. International Geomagnetic Reference Field: the thirteenth generation. Earth Planets Space 73, 49 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-020-01288-x , https://www.iaga-aiga.org/
GMT+8
CTT
China Taiwan Time
Mozambique Metical
Cubic Meter Measurement Unit
m^3
Decibel Measurement Unit
Georgian Lari
"Barycentric Coordinate Time (TCB, from the French Temps-coordonnée barycentrique) is a coordinate time standard intended to be used as the independent variable of time for all calculations pertaining to orbits of planets, asteroids, comets, and interplanetary spacecraft in the Solar system. It is equivalent to the proper time experienced by a clock at rest in a coordinate frame co-moving with the barycenter of the Solar system: that is, a clock that performs exactly the same movements as the Solar system but is outside the system's gravity well. It is therefore not influenced by the gravitational time dilation caused by the Sun and the rest of the system." From: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barycentric_Coordinate_Time)
Barycentric Coordinate Time
Minute Measurement Unit
Sierra Leone Leone
Gigahertz Measurement Unit
GHz
Malaysia Ringgit
Azerbaijan Manat
Square Decimeter Measurement Unit
dm^2
Japanese Yen
The Gregorian Calendar was instituted by Pope Gregory XIII via papal bull on 24 February 1582 as a reform of the Julian Calendar to stop the drift of the calendar with respect to the equinoxes and solstices. The Gregorian Calendar is currently the most widely used civil Calendar System in the world and is 13 days ahead of the Julian Calendar Date.
Gregorian Calendar
A Solar Calendar System that has a regular Year of 365 24-Hour Days divided into 12 Months with a leap day added at the end of February every 4 Years except Years that are evenly divisible by 100 but not 400 such that there are 97 leap Years every 400 Years and the average length of a Gregorian Year is 365.2425 Days (365 Days 5 Hours 49 Minutes 12 Seconds).
Slug Foot Per Second Measurement Unit
slug ft/s
Metric Ton Measurement Unit
tonne
Inch Measurement Unit
Cubic Decimeter Measurement Unit
dm^3
St Helena Pound
Miles Per Second Per Second Measurement Unit
mi/s/s
Gallon Per Minute Measurement Unit
gal/min
Kilopond Measurement Unit
Kilogram Force Measurement Unit
Kilogram-Force
kgf
Meter Measurement Unit
Burundi Franc
Second of Arc Measurement Unit
Arcsecond
arcsec
asec
Standard Cubic Centimeter Per Minute Measurement Unit
cm^3/min
Cubic Yard Measurement Unit
yrd^3
Sao Tome Principe Dobra
British Thermal Unit Measurement Unit
BTU
Btu
Turkmenistan Manat
GMT-6
CST
Central Standard Time
Unix Time is a Temporal Reference System for describing a point in time, defined as the number of seconds that have elapsed since 00:00:00 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) Thursday, 1 January 1970 minus the number of leap seconds that have taken place since then. (See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time)
Unix Time
Zulu Time Zone
Pounds Per Square Inch Measurement Unit
psi
UT2 is a variant of Universal Time that smooths UT1 by accounting for both polar motion and variations in Earth's rotation due to seasonal factors, such as changes in vegetation and water or snow distribution.
Universal Time 2
Centigram Measurement Unit
Kilometers Per Second Per Second Measurement Unit
km/s/s
Long Ton Measurement Unit
Displacement Ton
Gross Ton
Imperial Ton
Weight Ton
ton (UK)
Morocco Dirham
Juliet time is used as an indexical to refer to local time without otherwise specifying the time zone.
Juliet Time Zone
GMT-3
AGT
Argentina Standard Time
Indian Standard Time
Sri Lanka Standard Time
Brazilian Real
GMT+3
EAT
Eastern African Time
Chilean Peso
Acre Measurement Unit
acre
Month Measurement Unit
Serbian Dinar
Quartic Meter Measurement Unit
Danish Krone
Dyne Second Measurement Unit
dyne s
dyne second
Offset from Universal Coordinated Time = UTC-5
Romeo Time Zone
Square Millimeter Measurement Unit
mm^2
Foot Measurement Unit
Terahertz Measurement Unit
THz
UT1 is a derivation of UT0 that takes into account distortions caused by polar motion and is proportional to the rotation angle of the Earth with respect to distant quasars, specifically, the International Celestial Reference Frame (ICRF). UT1 is currently the most widely used variant of Universal Time and has the same value everywhere on Earth.
Universal Time 1
Astronomical Time
Croatia Kuna
Honduras Lempira
Kyrgyzstan Som
Guatemala Quetzal
Libyan Dinar
Bhutan Ngultrum
Offset from Universal Coordinated Time = UTC+4
Delta Time Zone
Degree Fahrenheit Measurement Unit
Iceland Krona
Norwegian Krone
Offset from Universal Coordinated Time = UTC+10
Kilo Time Zone
Pound Measurement Unit
Volt Ampere Measurement Unit
Hertz Measurement Unit
cycles per second
Jamaican Dollar
Offset from Universal Coordinated Time = UTC+3
Charlie Time Zone
Slug Per Second Measurement Unit
slug/s
Australian Dollar