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Use 'cycAnnot:externalID' for unambiguously referring to a concept across OWL exports or across Cyc inference engines. mutant Mutant The collection of organisms (people, plants, etc.) that have mutated away from their natural state, either through some genetic disorder or through some exposure to <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvgEFjZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">RadioactiveStuff</a>. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQLZlZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Mutant</a>s have a valid scientific status (especially with regard to plants and genetic experimentation), but the concept is often stretched into the realms of the fantastic in contexts such as that of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvcyOaZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Superhero</a> (e.g., see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwNyqV5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Spiderman</a>). mutants http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutant X-Man X-Man The class of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQLZlZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Mutant</a> <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvcyOaZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Superhero</a>es in the Marvel universe, including characters such as the Beast, Cyclops and Wolverine. Spiderman The <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvcyOaZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Superhero</a> from the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwMeg6JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ComicBookSeries</a> created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko in 1961. Spiderman's first appearance was in the last issue, no. 15, of Amazing Fantasy. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwNyqV5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Spiderman</a> created a trend in <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwMeg6JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ComicBookSeries</a> that represented a move away from the glossy froth of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvmkYYpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Superman</a> toward a more realistic consideration of a character's personality and social milieu. Spidey obtained his superpowers after being bitten by a radioactive spider, causing him to exhibit the proportional strength of a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjCnZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Spider</a>. He uses home-made 'web-shooters' to extrude long strands of a synthetic web-substance at high speed, and uses these strands to fly through the cityscape in a Tarzan/vine-like manner. Spiderman A collection of collections. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWXYgJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ExistingObjectType</a> is a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVj27ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PartiallyTangible</a> (q.v.). Moreover, each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWXYgJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ExistingObjectType</a> is a collection that is temporally stuff-like (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVitN5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TemporalStuffType</a>) but physically-spatially object-like (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVirnZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ObjectType</a>) -- i.e. object-like with respect to some physical-spatial part-whole predicate (e.g. some specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4r8a2smPXcQdiEoJhcx65EiQ" class="cyc_term">properPhysicalDecompositions</a>). Consider the collection <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJaXepwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BookCopy</a>. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJaXepwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BookCopy</a> is a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVj27ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PartiallyTangible</a>. Further, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJaXepwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BookCopy</a> is temporally stuff-like: any one of the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWn4OZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">timeSlices</a> of a given copy <code>COPY</code> of (say) "Moby Dick" is still a copy of "Moby Dick". (Most collections of tangible objects are temporally stuff-like in this way.) But <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJaXepwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BookCopy</a> is spatially object-like: if we take a scalpel and slice <code>COPY</code> into ten pieces, each piece is not a copy of "Moby Dick". So <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJaXepwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BookCopy</a> is an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWXYgJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ExistingObjectType</a>. See also <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVir35wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">StuffType</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVny6pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ExistingStuffType</a>. ExistingObjectType type of object mutant Mutant The collection of organisms (people, plants, etc.) that have mutated away from their natural state, either through some genetic disorder or through some exposure to <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvgEFjZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">RadioactiveStuff</a>. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQLZlZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Mutant</a>s have a valid scientific status (especially with regard to plants and genetic experimentation), but the concept is often stretched into the realms of the fantastic in contexts such as that of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvcyOaZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Superhero</a> (e.g., see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwNyqV5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Spiderman</a>). mutant Mutant The collection of organisms (people, plants, etc.) that have mutated away from their natural state, either through some genetic disorder or through some exposure to <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvgEFjZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">RadioactiveStuff</a>. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQLZlZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Mutant</a>s have a valid scientific status (especially with regard to plants and genetic experimentation), but the concept is often stretched into the realms of the fantastic in contexts such as that of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvcyOaZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Superhero</a> (e.g., see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwNyqV5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Spiderman</a>). mutant Mutant The collection of organisms (people, plants, etc.) that have mutated away from their natural state, either through some genetic disorder or through some exposure to <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvgEFjZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">RadioactiveStuff</a>. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQLZlZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Mutant</a>s have a valid scientific status (especially with regard to plants and genetic experimentation), but the concept is often stretched into the realms of the fantastic in contexts such as that of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvcyOaZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Superhero</a> (e.g., see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwNyqV5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Spiderman</a>). mutant Mutant The collection of organisms (people, plants, etc.) that have mutated away from their natural state, either through some genetic disorder or through some exposure to <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvgEFjZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">RadioactiveStuff</a>. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQLZlZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Mutant</a>s have a valid scientific status (especially with regard to plants and genetic experimentation), but the concept is often stretched into the realms of the fantastic in contexts such as that of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvcyOaZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Superhero</a> (e.g., see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwNyqV5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Spiderman</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 A collection of collections and a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVirnZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ObjectType</a> (q.v.). Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rpPHhAOB1EdqAAAACs6hRXg" class="cyc_term">SpatiallyDisjointObjectType</a> is a collection C of spatial things (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjpUZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SpatialThing</a>), where each of the spatial things in C is spatially disjoint with the other spatial things in C. For example, the collection <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjaoJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Dog</a> is an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rpPHhAOB1EdqAAAACs6hRXg" class="cyc_term">SpatiallyDisjointObjectType</a>, since dogs do not spatially overlap. Even pregnant dogs do not spatially overlap the pups they bear; rather, pregnant dogs contain their unborn pups. Other instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rpPHhAOB1EdqAAAACs6hRXg" class="cyc_term">SpatiallyDisjointObjectType</a> include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwVGrQ5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LatitudeLine</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvW4n1pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CompactDisc_Audio</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwR7UWZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PlanetaryBody</a>. An important specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rpPHhAOB1EdqAAAACs6hRXg" class="cyc_term">SpatiallyDisjointObjectType</a> is <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjlE5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SpatiallyDisjointRegionType</a> (a collection of specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViACZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">GeographicalRegion</a>, such as <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjnZ5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">City</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwT-n15wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TrueContinent</a>). spatially disjoint object type SpatiallyDisjointObjectType Organism-Whole A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVim7ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BiologicalLivingObject</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjE1pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Organism_Whole</a> is a biological living object (BLO) that is a whole, and not part of some other BLO. Most instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjE1pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Organism_Whole</a> are capable of existing and reproducing while physically separate from other organisms (with allowances for eating and mating). Abnormal BLOs which are nonetheless considered to be instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjE1pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Organism_Whole</a> include instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViXQpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Virus</a>, as well as sterile hybrids and colony organisms, like those in slime molds or the instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwP1N0JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PortugueseManOfWar</a>. organism