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Use 'cycAnnot:externalID' for unambiguously referring to a concept across OWL exports or across Cyc inference engines. surrounding SurroundingConfiguration-2D A <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVitN5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TemporalStuffType</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rhegzFMFnEdmAAACQJw5drg" class="cyc_term">SurroundingConfiguration_2D</a> is a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjuI5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Configuration</a> in which some <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjpUZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SpatialThing</a> surrounds (in the sense of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvsoSZpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">surrounds_2D</a>) some other <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjpUZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SpatialThing</a>. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surround_sound surrounded has surrounded had surrounded have surrounded surrounds will have surrounded surround will surround ringing A <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVitN5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TemporalStuffType</a> and specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rhegzFMFnEdmAAACQJw5drg" class="cyc_term">SurroundingConfiguration_2D</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rkqP68MFpEdmAAACQJw5drg" class="cyc_term">SurroundingConfiguration_Ringlike</a> is a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjuI5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Configuration</a> in which some <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjpUZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SpatialThing</a> (which may itself be a complex configuration of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjpUZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SpatialThing</a>s) surrounds (in the sense of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvw-L_JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">surrounds_Ringlike</a>) some other <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjpUZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SpatialThing</a>, as in 'The house was surrounded by a ring of trees'. SurroundingConfiguration-Ringlike configuration Configuration A specialization of both <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvh5TfJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">StaticSituation</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwS68M5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SpatialThing_Localized</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjuI5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Configuration</a> is a static situation consisting of two or more <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVj27ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PartiallyTangible</a> things of certain types standing in a certain type of spatial relationship (or set of relationships). This (set of) spatial relationship(s) &quot;characterizes&quot; the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjuI5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Configuration</a>'s <i>type</i> in the sense that any group of objects of the appropriate types standing in that relationship (or those relationships) correspond to a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjuI5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Configuration</a> of that type; and each of these objects, in turn, is said to be &quot;configured&quot; (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvjz-VJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">configuredObjects</a>) in the (individual) <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjuI5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Configuration</a>. <p/> For example, a knot configuration might correspond to a particular intertwining of end-segments of two <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVj1gZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CordlikeObject</a>s, or to the intertwining of several segments of a single <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVj1gZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CordlikeObject</a>. For configurations like the latter, whose characterizing relationship(s) hold between different parts of a single salient object, see the specialization <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv6BkqZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ConfigurationOfComplexObject</a>. Note that a static situation involving an <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViAB5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Agent_PartiallyTangible</a> might be a configuration, but only so long as it's just the agent's <i>spatial</i> relationship(s) to other partially tangibles that matters (see e.g. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVieCZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">WearingSomething</a>); static situations in which an agent's agency or sentience is crucial, on the other hand, are not configurations (cf. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwIV89pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">InterAgentSituation</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWbjKJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">InterAgentSituation_TwoAgent</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 surrounding SurroundingConfiguration-2D A <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVitN5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TemporalStuffType</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rhegzFMFnEdmAAACQJw5drg" class="cyc_term">SurroundingConfiguration_2D</a> is a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjuI5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Configuration</a> in which some <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjpUZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SpatialThing</a> surrounds (in the sense of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvsoSZpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">surrounds_2D</a>) some other <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjpUZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SpatialThing</a>. surrounding SurroundingConfiguration-2D A <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVitN5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TemporalStuffType</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rhegzFMFnEdmAAACQJw5drg" class="cyc_term">SurroundingConfiguration_2D</a> is a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjuI5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Configuration</a> in which some <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjpUZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SpatialThing</a> surrounds (in the sense of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvsoSZpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">surrounds_2D</a>) some other <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjpUZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SpatialThing</a>. type of temporally stuff-like thing A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVir35wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">StuffType</a> (q.v.) whose instances are all and only those collections that are temporally stuff-like. A collection <code><b>COL</b></code> is temporally stuff-like just in case every purely temporal part (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWn4OZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">timeSlices</a>) of an instance of <code><b>COL</b></code> is itself an instance of <code><b>COL</b></code>, unless it is a temporal part of a temporal granule of <code><b>COL</b></code> (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjaJJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">granuleOfTemporalStuff</a>). <p/> More precisely, for a collection <code><b>COL</b></code> to be an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVitN5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TemporalStuffType</a> it is both a necessary and sufficient condition that for any <code><b>OBJ1</b></code> and <code><b>OBJ2</b></code> (with <code><b>OBJ2</b></code> at or above <code><b>COL</b></code>'s temporal granularity level), if <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViBBJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">isa</a> <b>OBJ1</b> <b>COL</b>)</code> and <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWn4OZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">timeSlices</a> <b>OBJ1</b> <b>OBJ2</b>)</code>, then <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViBBJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">isa</a> <b>OBJ2</b> <b>COL</b>)</code>. <p/> Consider <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVi0gpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">WalkingOnTwoLegs</a>. Take an arbitrary instance <code><b>WALK</b></code> of this collection (say Miss America 2000's victory walk down the runway and back); and then take an arbitrary time-slice <code><b>SUBWALK</b></code> of <code><b>WALK</b></code> that subsumes at least one instance of (the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjaJJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">granuleOfTemporalStuff</a> for <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVi0gpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">WalkingOnTwoLegs</a>) <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViYBpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TakingAStep</a> (say her trip back from the end of the runway). <code><b>SUBWALK</b></code> is itself an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVi0gpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">WalkingOnTwoLegs</a>. So <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVi0gpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">WalkingOnTwoLegs</a> is an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVitN5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TemporalStuffType</a>. See <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViq35wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TemporalObjectType</a> for the disjoint notion of being temporally object-like. TemporalStuffType surrounding SurroundingConfiguration-2D A <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVitN5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TemporalStuffType</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rhegzFMFnEdmAAACQJw5drg" class="cyc_term">SurroundingConfiguration_2D</a> is a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjuI5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Configuration</a> in which some <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjpUZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SpatialThing</a> surrounds (in the sense of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvsoSZpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">surrounds_2D</a>) some other <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjpUZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SpatialThing</a>.