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The terms of this license equally apply to, without limitation, renamings and other logically equivalent reformulations of the content of this OWL file (or portions thereof) in any natural or formal language, as well as to derivations of this content or inclusion of it in other ontologies. externalID A unique, language-neutral, variable-sized identifier for a concept that can be used to refer unambiguously to that concept across OWL exports or across Cyc inference engines. label A natural-language representation for a concept that is both human readable and readable by the Cyc inference engine. These terms are not guaranteed to refer to the same concept across time but are guaranteed to be consistent within a particular OWL export. Use 'cycAnnot:externalID' for unambiguously referring to a concept across OWL exports or across Cyc inference engines. clarifying ElucidatingSomething A collection of events; a subcollection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwI_EFpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Explaining_CommunicationAct</a>. In each <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rC868NsFaEdmAAAACs6hRjg" class="cyc_term">ElucidatingSomething</a>, someone makes something clear and (more) comprehensible. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elucidate will have clarified has cleared up clarifies have clarified will clarify elucidating had cleared up had elucidated elucidated will elucidate elucidate clarified will clear up clarify cleared up will have cleared up had clarified clearing up have elucidated will have elucidated have cleared up clears up clear up has clarified has elucidated elucidates elaborating A collection of events; a subcollection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rC868NsFaEdmAAAACs6hRjg" class="cyc_term">ElucidatingSomething</a>. In each <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rQeuiusFbEdmAAAACs6hRjg" class="cyc_term">ElaboratingSomething</a>, someone adds details, as to an account or idea; clarifies the meaning of and discourse of something in a learned way, usually in writing. ElaboratingSomething clarifying ElucidatingSomething A collection of events; a subcollection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwI_EFpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Explaining_CommunicationAct</a>. In each <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rC868NsFaEdmAAAACs6hRjg" class="cyc_term">ElucidatingSomething</a>, someone makes something clear and (more) comprehensible. explaining Explaining-CommunicationAct A specialized collection of communication acts. In each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwI_EFpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Explaining_CommunicationAct</a>, some agent explains something to some other agent(s). The information given in an act of explaining is an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvW7ze5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Explanation</a>. Pretty String (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwLSVCpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">prettyString</a> TERM STRING) means that STRING is the English word or expression (sequence of words) commonly used to refer to TERM. The predicate <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwLSVCpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">prettyString</a> is used by the code which generates CycL to English paraphrases, but its applicability is not restricted to this use. prettyString clarifying ElucidatingSomething A collection of events; a subcollection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwI_EFpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Explaining_CommunicationAct</a>. In each <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rC868NsFaEdmAAAACs6hRjg" class="cyc_term">ElucidatingSomething</a>, someone makes something clear and (more) comprehensible. clarifying ElucidatingSomething A collection of events; a subcollection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwI_EFpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Explaining_CommunicationAct</a>. In each <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rC868NsFaEdmAAAACs6hRjg" class="cyc_term">ElucidatingSomething</a>, someone makes something clear and (more) comprehensible. typical human activity type at least once TypicalHumanActivityType-AtLeastOnce The collection of specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViN65wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HumanActivity</a> such that persons typically are involved in (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjFpZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">actors</a>) at least one instance of the activity type in their lifetime. first-order collection An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvtppU5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CollectionType</a>, and a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rNooX_CChEdaAAABQ2rksLw" class="cyc_term">FixedOrderCollection</a>. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rHIBS0h_TEdaAAABQ2rksLw" class="cyc_term">FirstOrderCollection</a> is the collection of all specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjaApwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Individual</a> (q.v.) Notable specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rHIBS0h_TEdaAAABQ2rksLw" class="cyc_term">FirstOrderCollection</a> include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViq35wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TemporalObjectType</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVny6pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ExistingStuffType</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWXYgJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ExistingObjectType</a>. FirstOrderCollection clarifying ElucidatingSomething A collection of events; a subcollection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwI_EFpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Explaining_CommunicationAct</a>. In each <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rC868NsFaEdmAAAACs6hRjg" class="cyc_term">ElucidatingSomething</a>, someone makes something clear and (more) comprehensible.