loading...| Preferred Name | quality | |
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| Definitions |
A quality is an entity that describes some aspect which is intrinsic to that particular object and is dependent on or more material entities in which it inheres in or is borne by. Example the color of a tomato, the ambient temperature of air, the circumference of a waist, the shape of a nose, the mass of a piece of gold, the weight of a chimpanzee |
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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000019 |
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| BFO_0000179 |
quality |
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| BFO_0000180 |
Quality |
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| database_cross_reference |
SNOMEDCT:263496004 NCIt:C25283 |
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| example of usage |
the color of a tomato the ambient temperature of this portion of air the length of the circumference of your waist the mass of this piece of gold. the shape of your nostril the shape of your nose |
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| IAO_0000600 |
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. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [055-001]) |
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| IAO_0000601 |
If an entity is a quality at any time that it exists, then it is a quality at every time that it exists. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [105-001]) |
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| IAO_0000602 |
(forall (x) (if (Quality x) (SpecificallyDependentContinuant x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [055-001] (forall (x) (if (exists (t) (and (existsAt x t) (Quality x))) (forall (t_1) (if (existsAt x t_1) (Quality x))))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [105-001] |
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quality quality |
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| organizational_class |
true |
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| prefixIRI |
BFO:0000019 |
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| prefLabel |
quality quality |
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| source_definition |
A specifically dependent continuant [snap:SpecificallyDependentContinuant] that is exhibited if it inheres in an entity or entities at all (a categorical property). |
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| term editor |
James Malone |
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| textual definition |
A quality is an entity that describes some aspect which is intrinsic to that particular object and is dependent on or more material entities in which it inheres in or is borne by. Example the color of a tomato, the ambient temperature of air, the circumference of a waist, the shape of a nose, the mass of a piece of gold, the weight of a chimpanzee |
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