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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. An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwTM58JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BuildingCluster</a> is a group of two or more buildings whose members are situated <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwPutdpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">near</a> each other, and are particularly close to each other relative to any other buildings in the same general vicinity. Many building complexes and compounds count as building clusters. When located in a city, the buildings in a given cluster are usually all situated within the same <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvfS3MJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CityBlock</a>. In densely-populated areas building clusters often occupy one side of an entire <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvm7gZpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BlockOfStreet</a>, and in downtown areas of large cities it is not uncommon for a cluster of buildings to take up an entire city block. For building clusters that are in the form of rows, see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvpiucZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BuildingRow</a>. BuildingCluster cluster of buildings http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_compound compound complexes groups of buildings group of buildings compounds clusters of buildings building complex building complexes complex A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwTM58JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BuildingCluster</a> each of whose instances is arranged in a row. In densely-populated cites it is not uncommon for a row of buildings to take up one side of an entire <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvm7gZpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BlockOfStreet</a>. BuildingRow row of buildings abandoned complex (CollectionIntersectionFn (TheSet Abandoned-ExistentialStatus BuildingCluster)) ForestStation forest station A <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rF4p0VoIrEdqAAAACs6hO_g" class="cyc_term">ForestStation</a> is a group of buildings and facilities located in some <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwVAaWpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Forest</a> that is intended to support forest management activities. A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwTM58JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BuildingCluster</a>. Each instance of this collection is a group of buildings, typically one or more <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjiX5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">FactoryBuilding</a>s and the associated administrative and other support buildings. Instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4r74l31E01QdmZ7v90fF6kcQ" class="cyc_term">FactoryBuildingComplex</a> are involved with manufacturing products or partially processed materials for futher manufacturing. industrial plant FactoryBuildingComplex VaticanBuildingComplex The group of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVj7KJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Building</a>s overseen by the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJQexJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HolySee</a> and located in <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVign5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">VaticanCity</a>. There is no single building which is known as 'The Vatican'. Rather,there is a complex of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVj7KJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Building</a>s that include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv1l1_JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">VaticanMuseums</a>, residences built for the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQBxYpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Pope</a>s (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvfciqpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">VaticanPalaces</a>), libraries, chapels, and the large <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVigPpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Cathedral</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvkDFvZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">StPetersBasilica</a>. the Vatican VaticanPalaces the Vatican Palaces The group of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjpbJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PalaceBuilding</a>s that have served and continue to serve as the residences for instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQBxYpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Pope</a>. Several different <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjpbJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PalaceBuilding</a>s have been built over the centuries, and some of them are open to the public. the UN headquarters UNHeadquarters An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwTM58JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BuildingCluster</a> is a group of two or more buildings whose members are situated <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwPutdpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">near</a> each other, and are particularly close to each other relative to any other buildings in the same general vicinity. Many building complexes and compounds count as building clusters. When located in a city, the buildings in a given cluster are usually all situated within the same <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvfS3MJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CityBlock</a>. In densely-populated areas building clusters often occupy one side of an entire <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvm7gZpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BlockOfStreet</a>, and in downtown areas of large cities it is not uncommon for a cluster of buildings to take up an entire city block. For building clusters that are in the form of rows, see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvpiucZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BuildingRow</a>. BuildingCluster cluster of buildings group of buildings (GroupFn Building) <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rZOAVeiYGEdqAAAACs2IMmw" class="cyc_term">broaderTerm</a> TERM1 TERM2)</code> means that <code>TERM2</code> is broader than <code>TERM1</code>, in an extremely general sense of "broader". For example, <code>TERM2</code> is, in the relevant sense, broader than <code>TERM1</code> if any of the following hold: <code>TERM2</code> is a collection that subsumes <code>TERM1</code>; <code>TERM2</code> is a collection that has <code>TERM1</code> as an instance; <code>TERM2</code> is a collection, instances of which have instances of the collection <code>TERM1</code> as parts; <code>TERM2</code> has <code>TERM1</code> as a part; This list of reasons for why <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rZOAVeiYGEdqAAAACs2IMmw" class="cyc_term">broaderTerm</a> TERM1 TERM2)</code> could hold is not exhaustive, but it should give a good indication of how general the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rZOAVeiYGEdqAAAACs2IMmw" class="cyc_term">broaderTerm</a> relation actually is. BT broaderTerm Concept Nodes For Task Type Fn intelligence analysis task (ConceptNodesForTaskTypeFn IntelligenceAnalysisTask-Allotment) buildings and structures concept BuildingConcept A <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4ret7qgOKgEdmAAAACs6hfSg" class="cyc_term">ConceptTypeByDomain</a> (q.v.). Instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rZvGxFv6_EdmAAAACs0uFOQ" class="cyc_term">BuildingConcept</a> are collections and relations having to do with buildings. Specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVj7KJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Building</a>, and relations used for describing the construction, parts, size, uses, and other features of various types of buildings are instances of this collection. 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 ArrangementOfLikeObjects A collection of groups of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVj27ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PartiallyTangible</a>s. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVj73ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ArrangementOfLikeObjects</a> is a group of partially tangible objects, all of the same type (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwMa_kJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">arrangementObjectTypes</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvicurZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">arrangementNearestObjectTypes</a>), having a specified set of spatial relations holding among them (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvl75cJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">arrangementPredicates</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvaz7OJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">arrangementNearestPredicates</a>). See also <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjmoJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Group</a>. configuration An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwTM58JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BuildingCluster</a> is a group of two or more buildings whose members are situated <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwPutdpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">near</a> each other, and are particularly close to each other relative to any other buildings in the same general vicinity. Many building complexes and compounds count as building clusters. When located in a city, the buildings in a given cluster are usually all situated within the same <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvfS3MJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CityBlock</a>. In densely-populated areas building clusters often occupy one side of an entire <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvm7gZpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BlockOfStreet</a>, and in downtown areas of large cities it is not uncommon for a cluster of buildings to take up an entire city block. For building clusters that are in the form of rows, see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvpiucZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BuildingRow</a>. BuildingCluster cluster of buildings An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwTM58JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BuildingCluster</a> is a group of two or more buildings whose members are situated <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwPutdpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">near</a> each other, and are particularly close to each other relative to any other buildings in the same general vicinity. Many building complexes and compounds count as building clusters. When located in a city, the buildings in a given cluster are usually all situated within the same <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvfS3MJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CityBlock</a>. In densely-populated areas building clusters often occupy one side of an entire <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvm7gZpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BlockOfStreet</a>, and in downtown areas of large cities it is not uncommon for a cluster of buildings to take up an entire city block. For building clusters that are in the form of rows, see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvpiucZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BuildingRow</a>. BuildingCluster cluster of buildings 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 An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwTM58JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BuildingCluster</a> is a group of two or more buildings whose members are situated <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwPutdpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">near</a> each other, and are particularly close to each other relative to any other buildings in the same general vicinity. Many building complexes and compounds count as building clusters. When located in a city, the buildings in a given cluster are usually all situated within the same <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvfS3MJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CityBlock</a>. In densely-populated areas building clusters often occupy one side of an entire <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvm7gZpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BlockOfStreet</a>, and in downtown areas of large cities it is not uncommon for a cluster of buildings to take up an entire city block. For building clusters that are in the form of rows, see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvpiucZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BuildingRow</a>. BuildingCluster cluster of buildings ConstructionArtifact A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkH_ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Artifact</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVidpZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ConstructionArtifact</a> is a structure designed and built by agents (human or otherwise). This collection includes buildings and parts of buildings, as well as things like dams, railroad lines, and roads. Examples include the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvgEAb5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">RomanColiseum</a>, the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwP1lTJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ArcDeTriomphe</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVwFKJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HooverDam</a>, the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwLIPtpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">EmpireStateBuilding</a>, and the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvgCp_5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HollywoodBowl</a>. Note that the collection <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVidpZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ConstructionArtifact</a> includes some instances (such as instances of the specialization <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv28VbJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">MannedSpacecraft</a>) that are not tied to a fixed location, as well as some instances (such as instances of the specialization <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwQtof5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BridgeSpan</a>) that, although tied to a fixed location, are not free-standing artifacts. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVjGR5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">FixedStructure</a>, an important specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVidpZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ConstructionArtifact</a>, is the collection of free-standing construction artifacts that are tied to a fixed location. man-made structure