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Use 'cycAnnot:externalID' for unambiguously referring to a concept across OWL exports or across Cyc inference engines. sound information bearing thing SoundInformationBearingThing A specialization of both <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkG_JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AudibleSound</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv4NEApwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">InformationBearingWavePropagation</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjIvpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SoundInformationBearingThing</a> is an sound which is audible by, and thereby capable of providing information to, an <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViAB5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Agent_PartiallyTangible</a>. (This information need not necessarily be in propositional form.) This collection does not include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv4NEApwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">InformationBearingWavePropagation</a>s that require the use of some sort of electronic device to be rendered in the form of audible sound; thus <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQCWK5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">RadioWave</a> is not a specialization. Genuine specializations include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjOJpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Music</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkMJJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AnimalUtterance_IBT</a>. Note that, despite the use of the word `Thing' in the name of this constant, it refers to the sound alone, not to the thing that makes the sound (e.g. if one's CD player is pumping out music, the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjIvpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SoundInformationBearingThing</a> is the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjOJpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Music</a>, not the player). Thus, no one thing can be an instance of both <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjIvpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SoundInformationBearingThing</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjPtpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">VisualInformationBearingThing</a> (e.g.). sound information bearing things RadioShow-IBT A collection of objects; a subset of RadioMediaProduct. Every <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvzCXhJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">RadioShow_IBT</a> is a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjIvpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SoundInformationBearingThing</a>, an actual broadcast. Note that, e.g., 'The Rush Limbaugh Show' is not a RadioShow but a #$SpecifiedRadioSeriesType, a collection of RadioShows. radio show RadioCommercial-IBT Radio programming which is an advertisement. radio commercial A specialization of both <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjIvpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SoundInformationBearingThing</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvtisp5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Artifact_Intangible</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjOJpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Music</a> is a particular sound produced by actions such as singing, whistling, playing an instrument, playing recorded music, and so on. Music has certain features that distinguish it from random noise (though recognizing them may depend upon a specific cultural background); such features usually include variations of pitch over time (i.e., melody), multiple (somehow) related pitches sounding at one time (i.e., some kind of harmony), and/or some regular temporal pattern to the component sounds (i.e., rhythm). Instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjOJpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Music</a> include the debut performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Leonard Bernstein's rendition of the Ninth Symphony with the BPO in Berlin in 1989, a particular playing of a particular CD of Bernstein's 1989 Ninth in Berlin, and the Messiah sing-in in Austin, TX, in 1995. This collection is not to be confused with <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViDo5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">MusicalText</a> or <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv_NP-JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">MusicalTextCopy</a> (qq.v.), which refer to the represented instructions which musicians often follow in order to create <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjOJpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Music</a>. music Music spoken utterance A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvpmpZ5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Sound</a>. Each instance of this collection is a sound initially generated by some <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvsaaeJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Agent_Generic</a> speaking or making some sound with his/her mouth (or other specifically sonic-information-conveying organ or device). Such sounds may or may not have propositional content -- that is -- instantiate some <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViAqJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PropositionalInformationThing</a>. If such a sound is recorded and played back, the sound generated is still considered an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rQahWGFyWEdaAAAABAxv-7A" class="cyc_term">SpokenUtterance_IBT</a>. Note that only the sounds themselves are instances of this collection -- not the activities of making them. This collection is not a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVioQZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Action</a>. (For that, see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVieg5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CommunicationAct_Single</a> and its specializations.) An important specialization of this collection is <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkMJJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AnimalUtterance_IBT</a>. SpokenUtterance-IBT alarm sound AlarmSound An audible warning. character string token sounded A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwCKd45wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CharacterStringToken</a>, each of whose instances is a specific sound event that represents or realizes a particular abstract instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWEA25wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CharacterString</a> in some language or writing system. A sounded character-string token might be generated directly by a human voice, created by playing a recording of a voice, or generated by purely electronic means. Instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvq1hLpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CharacterStringToken_Sounded</a>, unlike inscribed or electromagnetically-encoded string tokens, normally do not have individual character tokens as parts, as most sounded string tokens simply cannot be divided into discrete sounded character tokens (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwHt9TZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CharacterToken_Sounded</a>). E.g. a spoken token of the string 'cat' -- unless it happens to be literally spelled out -- does not contain a token of the letter 'c' as a part. Thus, most sounded character-string tokens are not instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvcAIoZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CharacterStringToken_Serial</a>. CharacterStringToken-Sounded sound information bearing thing SoundInformationBearingThing A specialization of both <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkG_JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AudibleSound</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv4NEApwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">InformationBearingWavePropagation</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjIvpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SoundInformationBearingThing</a> is an sound which is audible by, and thereby capable of providing information to, an <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViAB5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Agent_PartiallyTangible</a>. (This information need not necessarily be in propositional form.) This collection does not include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv4NEApwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">InformationBearingWavePropagation</a>s that require the use of some sort of electronic device to be rendered in the form of audible sound; thus <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQCWK5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">RadioWave</a> is not a specialization. Genuine specializations include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjOJpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Music</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkMJJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AnimalUtterance_IBT</a>. Note that, despite the use of the word `Thing' in the name of this constant, it refers to the sound alone, not to the thing that makes the sound (e.g. if one's CD player is pumping out music, the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjIvpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SoundInformationBearingThing</a> is the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjOJpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Music</a>, not the player). Thus, no one thing can be an instance of both <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjIvpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SoundInformationBearingThing</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjPtpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">VisualInformationBearingThing</a> (e.g.). InformationAndCWs-Topic information and CWs topic 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 sound information bearing thing SoundInformationBearingThing A specialization of both <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkG_JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AudibleSound</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv4NEApwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">InformationBearingWavePropagation</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjIvpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SoundInformationBearingThing</a> is an sound which is audible by, and thereby capable of providing information to, an <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViAB5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Agent_PartiallyTangible</a>. (This information need not necessarily be in propositional form.) This collection does not include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv4NEApwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">InformationBearingWavePropagation</a>s that require the use of some sort of electronic device to be rendered in the form of audible sound; thus <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQCWK5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">RadioWave</a> is not a specialization. Genuine specializations include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjOJpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Music</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkMJJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AnimalUtterance_IBT</a>. Note that, despite the use of the word `Thing' in the name of this constant, it refers to the sound alone, not to the thing that makes the sound (e.g. if one's CD player is pumping out music, the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjIvpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SoundInformationBearingThing</a> is the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjOJpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Music</a>, not the player). Thus, no one thing can be an instance of both <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjIvpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SoundInformationBearingThing</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjPtpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">VisualInformationBearingThing</a> (e.g.). 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 information bearing wave propagation InformationBearingWavePropagation A specialization of both <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvkNufpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">InformationBearingThing</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQCA9ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">WavePropagation</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv4NEApwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">InformationBearingWavePropagation</a> is a wave propagation event that carries information for interpreters who understand its conventions. Notable specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv4NEApwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">InformationBearingWavePropagation</a> include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjOJpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Music</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkL2pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">VisualImage</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rQahWGFyWEdaAAAABAxv-7A" class="cyc_term">SpokenUtterance_IBT</a>. sound information bearing thing SoundInformationBearingThing A specialization of both <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkG_JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AudibleSound</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv4NEApwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">InformationBearingWavePropagation</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjIvpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SoundInformationBearingThing</a> is an sound which is audible by, and thereby capable of providing information to, an <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViAB5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Agent_PartiallyTangible</a>. (This information need not necessarily be in propositional form.) This collection does not include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv4NEApwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">InformationBearingWavePropagation</a>s that require the use of some sort of electronic device to be rendered in the form of audible sound; thus <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQCWK5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">RadioWave</a> is not a specialization. Genuine specializations include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjOJpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Music</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkMJJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AnimalUtterance_IBT</a>. Note that, despite the use of the word `Thing' in the name of this constant, it refers to the sound alone, not to the thing that makes the sound (e.g. if one's CD player is pumping out music, the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjIvpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SoundInformationBearingThing</a> is the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjOJpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Music</a>, not the player). Thus, no one thing can be an instance of both <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjIvpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SoundInformationBearingThing</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjPtpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">VisualInformationBearingThing</a> (e.g.). audible sound A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvpmpZ5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Sound</a>. Each instance of this collection is a sound which is audible to most instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViwMZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Animal</a> under normal conditions. AudibleSound