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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. permeation The expansion and/or translation of some stuff into some area or across some barrier, e.g. an odor in a room, wetness coming through a sponge. Permeation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permeation will permeate have permeated permeations permeating permeate permeated permeates has permeated had permeated will have permeated SeaSurfaceAtmosphereExchange sea surface atmosphere exchange The collection of all <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViGiZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Permeation</a> processes whereby various gasses such as gaseous CO2 diffuse out of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjU2pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TheEarthsAtmosphere</a> and are dissolved in the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQBWdJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">EarthsOceanSea</a>, and conversely, precipitate out of the ocean and into the atmosphere. The collection of all events of respiratory gas exchange, in which oxygen and other gasses cross a membrane. The purpose is intake of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjIyJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Oxygen</a> and output of other gasses like <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVi_2ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CarbonDioxide</a>. In <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvvfJwZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AirBreathingVertebrate</a>s, it occurs at the walls of the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwN8NFZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Alveolus</a> within the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjKy5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Lung</a>. RespiratoryGasExchange respiratory gas exchange permeation The expansion and/or translation of some stuff into some area or across some barrier, e.g. an odor in a room, wetness coming through a sponge. Permeation 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 movement of fluid A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvjKor5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">MovementOrShapeChangeEvent</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWLc3pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">FluidFlowEvent</a> is an event in which a fluid moves (or a group of particles collectively moves). The spatial extent of the fluid may change (i.e. expansion or contraction, see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViocpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ShapingSomething</a>) and/or they may undergo a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkEAZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">MovementEvent</a> such as rotation (e.g. a whirlpool or a tornado) and/or translation. If the fluid undergoes translation, then the event is also an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkEhJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">FluidFlow_Translation</a>. Examples of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkEhJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">FluidFlow_Translation</a> include `partial' motions such as occurs in rivers flowing, or jets of air blowing. Another kind of example of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkEhJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">FluidFlow_Translation</a> is <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkFC5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">FluidFlow_Complete</a>, in which the fluid moves entirely from the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjiI5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">fromLocation</a> and to the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjXepwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">toLocation</a>. FluidFlowEvent permeation The expansion and/or translation of some stuff into some area or across some barrier, e.g. an odor in a room, wetness coming through a sponge. Permeation 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>COL</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>COL</code> is itself an instance of <code>COL</code>, unless it is a temporal part of a temporal granule of <code>COL</code> (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjaJJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">granuleOfTemporalStuff</a>). More precisely, for a collection <code>COL</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>OBJ1</code> and <code>OBJ2</code> (with <code>OBJ2</code> at or above <code>COL</code>'s temporal granularity level), if <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViBBJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">isa</a> OBJ1 COL)</code> and <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWn4OZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">timeSlices</a> OBJ1 OBJ2)</code>, then <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViBBJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">isa</a> OBJ2 COL)</code>. Consider <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVi0gpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">WalkingOnTwoLegs</a>. Take an arbitrary instance <code>WALK</code> of this collection (say Miss America 2000's victory walk down the runway and back); and then take an arbitrary time-slice <code>SUBWALK</code> of <code>WALK</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>SUBWALK</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 permeation The expansion and/or translation of some stuff into some area or across some barrier, e.g. an odor in a room, wetness coming through a sponge. Permeation permeation The expansion and/or translation of some stuff into some area or across some barrier, e.g. an odor in a room, wetness coming through a sponge. Permeation