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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. ShortTime short time This is a qualifier to be used as an optional argument to temporal relations. short times short-termest short-term short-termer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Time ShortTime short time This is a qualifier to be used as an optional argument to temporal relations. ShortTime short time This is a qualifier to be used as an optional argument to temporal relations. 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 ShortTime short time This is a qualifier to be used as an optional argument to temporal relations. A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rhywBFkT6EdaAAACgye4oEQ" class="cyc_term">PhysicalQuantity</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViApZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Time_Quantity</a> is a physical quantity, corresponding to a certain &quot;amount of time&quot;, that can be possessed by <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViAxJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TemporalThing</a>s. The <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViApZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Time_Quantity</a> had by a given thing represents the total amount of time that the thing exists, occurs over, or endures; see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVijs5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">duration</a>. Consider a sentence of the form (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVijs5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">duration</a> TEMPTHING TIMEQUANT). If TEMPTHING is a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVi255wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SomethingExisting</a>, the sentence means that TEMPTHING exists for a lifetime that is TIMEQUANT in duration. If TEMPTHING is an <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViADZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Event</a>, the sentence means that TEMPTHING (fully) transpires over an interval of time that is TIMEQUANT in duration. If TEMPTHING is itself a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViAw5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TimeInterval</a> (q.v.), the sentence means that TEMPTHING has a duration of TIMEQUANT. The standard unit of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViApZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Time_Quantity</a> in Cyc is <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjrsZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SecondsDuration</a> (q.v.); but there are other ways to specify an amount of time, e.g. with other instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViAqpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">UnitOfMeasure</a> (such as <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkAf5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">WeeksDuration</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjq75wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">YearsDuration</a>) or with instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViApZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Time_Quantity</a> (such as <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViZQ5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LongTime</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViZxpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Immediately</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVivcpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AFewDecadesDuration</a>). Time-Quantity time ShortTime short time This is a qualifier to be used as an optional argument to temporal relations. A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rLxknOmVZQdeQUJLqO_1Uzg" class="cyc_term">ScalarQuantity</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rLOwZCvkjQdea-sfI2QK3kQ" class="cyc_term">ScalarProperInterval</a> (qq.v.). Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rkmGj_Bv1EdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">NonNumericScalarQuantity</a> is a properly interval-like quantity that is not given in terms of a numerically-specified measurement (cf. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rr-2NGp7sQdidoL5VyxYMGg" class="cyc_term">MeasurableQuantity</a>). Typically, a non-numeric quantity is specified in a way that compares it to certain other non-numeric quantities of the same general type. For example, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwPuojpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BreadboxSized</a> is a non-numeric <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVju5JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Volume</a> that is less than (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViSr5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">followingValue</a>) the volume <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjzAJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HumanSized</a>. <p/> Note that no <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjarZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">MathematicalFunctionOnScalars</a> (e.g. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViArpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PlusFn</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4r87r3lr_7QdiBR_xTRXEEBw" class="cyc_term">ScalarExponentFn</a>) is defined (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvm2YOJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">undefined</a>) on any non-numeric scalar quantity. <p/> An important specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rkmGj_Bv1EdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">NonNumericScalarQuantity</a> is <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViZjpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">GenericQuantity</a>. <p/> For predicates that relate things to non-numeric quantities that characterize them, see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rGwNl-MFvQdiPHKVk-aZIEw" class="cyc_term">NonNumericQuantitySlot</a>. NonNumericScalarQuantity non numeric scalar quantity