]> 2008/06/10 OpenCyc Knowledge Base Copyright© 2001-2008 Cycorp, Inc., http://www.cyc.com/, Austin, TX, USA This file contains an OWL representation of information contained in the OpenCyc Knowledge Base. The content of this OWL file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license whose text can be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode. The content of this OWL file, including the OpenCyc content it represents, constitutes the "Work" referred to in the Creative Commons license. 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. biodiversity Biodiversity This is the collection of degrees of biodiversity. These degrees are measures of the number, variety, and density (number per unit area) of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjK65wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BiologicalSpecies</a> in a particular geographical region. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiversity MeasurableQuantity measurable quantity A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rSGNLQK45EdqAAAACs6hRXg" class="cyc_term">Quantity</a> (q.v.). This is the collection of quantities that have a numeric component and could actually be used to <i>measure</i> something, as opposed to (say) merely ranking it on a scale. Arithmetic operations (such as addition and multiplication) can be performed on measurable quantities, as they can on purely numeric scalars (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rnVZQSiCmEdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">NumericInterval</a>). <p/> Specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rr-2NGp7sQdidoL5VyxYMGg" class="cyc_term">MeasurableQuantity</a> include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViAmpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Distance</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVicfJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Temperature</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjb5pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Mass</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViApZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Time_Quantity</a>. Other, broader specializations are <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rUstvYKCIQdiBWaekaRIs-w" class="cyc_term">OneDimensionalQuantity</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rVQ8MvqCIQdicLoOa1pZefg" class="cyc_term">TwoDimensionalQuantity</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4r-7GRzKCIQdiHEaxh2Wf1-g" class="cyc_term">ThreeDimensionalQuantity</a>. <p/> Any quantity (that at least in principle could be) returned by a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViAqpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">UnitOfMeasure</a> (q.v.) function is a measurable quantity. In CycL, particular measurable quantities are usually represented as the result of applying a unit-of-measure function to a real number or pair of reals. For example, (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjRp5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Meter</a> 5) is the distance 5 meters. <p/> For predicates that relate things to measurable quantities that characterize them, see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvaEcosFuQdiNopS8VV8ODg" class="cyc_term">MeasurableQuantitySlot</a>. biodiversity Biodiversity This is the collection of degrees of biodiversity. These degrees are measures of the number, variety, and density (number per unit area) of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjK65wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BiologicalSpecies</a> in a particular geographical region. biodiversity Biodiversity This is the collection of degrees of biodiversity. These degrees are measures of the number, variety, and density (number per unit area) of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjK65wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BiologicalSpecies</a> in a particular geographical region. GeographicalQuantity geographical quantity A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rygxStLLcQdecMqyUNVYD1g" class="cyc_term">TangiblePhysicalQuantity</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4riCJ1OnEuQdeeOJzun_J5YQ" class="cyc_term">GeographicalQuantity</a> is a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rhywBFkT6EdaAAACgye4oEQ" class="cyc_term">PhysicalQuantity</a> that can only characterize a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViACZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">GeographicalRegion</a>. biodiversity Biodiversity This is the collection of degrees of biodiversity. These degrees are measures of the number, variety, and density (number per unit area) of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjK65wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BiologicalSpecies</a> in a particular geographical region. biodiversity Biodiversity This is the collection of degrees of biodiversity. These degrees are measures of the number, variety, and density (number per unit area) of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjK65wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BiologicalSpecies</a> in a particular geographical region. TotallyOrderedQuantityType linear order attribute type A collection of collections and a specialization of both <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4r91ZApkTvEdaAAACgye4oEQ" class="cyc_term">TotallyOrderedScalarIntervalType</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkDZJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">QuantityType</a> (qq.v.). Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwF4t15wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TotallyOrderedQuantityType</a> is a totally-ordered collection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rSGNLQK45EdqAAAACs6hRXg" class="cyc_term">Quantity</a>[ies], and thus an appropriate argument for a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvyorqJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">GenericValueFunction</a> (q.v.), such as <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvgDDa5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LowAmountFn</a> or <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rpAl6tPLFQdeYfK2wZfrvag" class="cyc_term">MediumToHighAmountFn</a>. <p/> Instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwF4t15wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TotallyOrderedQuantityType</a> include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvgEOkJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Toxicity</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv0H0z5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">DiplomaticSupport</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvi2nP5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LevelOfDifficulty</a>. Specializations include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViBKpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PrimitiveOrderedQuantityType</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rlsKf-MukQdiEYr6WbI2G4Q" class="cyc_term">MeasurableQuantityType</a>.