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Mappings between OpenCyc terms and Wikipedia article names provided by Olena Medelyan and Catherine Legg, University of Waikato, NZ under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. 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. fractured thing The collection of instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVj27ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PartiallyTangible</a> that have been cracked but not completely shattered. Something that has been fractured or has a fractured part will often retain physical integrity, but will usually have its functionality impaired in some way. Fractured most fractured more fractured fractured Fractured http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractured Pretty String (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/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/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 The collection of instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVj27ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PartiallyTangible</a> that have been cracked but not completely shattered. Something that has been fractured or has a fractured part will often retain physical integrity, but will usually have its functionality impaired in some way. fractured thing Fractured The collection of instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVj27ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PartiallyTangible</a> that have been cracked but not completely shattered. Something that has been fractured or has a fractured part will often retain physical integrity, but will usually have its functionality impaired in some way. fractured thing Fractured wikipediaArticleName (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rTv-jk9SPTXa991kk5mAvHg" class="cyc_term">wikipediaArticleName</a> THING NAME) means that in <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rtqXA6OC8QdiWC72DuLJdUw" class="cyc_term">Wikipedia_WebSite</a> THING is described by an article with the title NAME Wikipedia Article Name Wikipedia Article URL (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rNv0nbm4TTjOp7yhmnzOyqg" class="cyc_term">wikipediaArticleURL</a> THING URL) means that in <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rtqXA6OC8QdiWC72DuLJdUw" class="cyc_term">Wikipedia_WebSite</a> THING is described by an article located at URL wikipediaArticleURL SolidTangibleThing An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVny6pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ExistingStuffType</a>, and a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVj27ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PartiallyTangible</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjElJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SolidTangibleThing</a> is a piece of stuff possessing many of the properties that matter in a solid state (see the constant <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjZVpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Solid_StateOfMatter</a>) exhibits (although not all instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjElJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SolidTangibleThing</a> are formally in a solid state). Instances have a shape independent from their container, and, when deformed with sufficient force (which may be small for weak, brittle materials or high for materials that deform easily), they break. Examples of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjElJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SolidTangibleThing</a>s include: pieces of substances in a solid state of matter, such as ice cubes; solid mixtures like a quarter-dollar coin or a paper bag; and complex mixtures of biological origin that behave like solids, e.g., bone. Note that some pieces of matter that are formally in a solid state (for example, pieces of clay) are not instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjElJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SolidTangibleThing</a>, since they do not readily break when deformed; for this reason, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjZVpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Solid_StateOfMatter</a> is <i>not</i> a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjElJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SolidTangibleThing</a>. Collections of the solid form of any type of stuff can be created using <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwPzX0JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SolidFn</a> (q.v.). solid object PartiallyTangibleTypeByPhysicalStructuralFeature physical structural attribute A <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvprlOZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">FacetingCollectionType</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rTiUyOHSyEdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">PartiallyTangibleTypeByPhysicalStructuralFeature</a> is a collection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVj27ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PartiallyTangible</a>s sharing some physical structural feature. These features are qualitative, not measurable; in that way, they are unlike the instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViYGZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Density</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjb5pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Mass</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViE0ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Elasticity</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvgDNnpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ThermalConductivity</a>, and other features which are instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rSGNLQK45EdqAAAACs6hRXg" class="cyc_term">Quantity</a>. Examples of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rTiUyOHSyEdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">PartiallyTangibleTypeByPhysicalStructuralFeature</a>: <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rDliWrHS-EdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">Granular</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4r_G0V0HS9EdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">Powder</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4r10bA8nS-EdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">Paste_Form</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvtOOLnS-EdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">Brittle</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rTCX5tHTAEdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">Collapsible</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rz2XSoHS6EdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">Hollow</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rKQxZWHS9EdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">Woven</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rlR44WHS_EdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">Burnt</a>. An individual object can be associated with a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rTiUyOHSyEdaAAACgyZzFrg" class="cyc_term">PartiallyTangibleTypeByPhysicalStructuralFeature</a> with the predicate <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rtzbGRH8AEdaAAAABAjVgzA" class="cyc_term">physicalStructuralFeatures</a> (q.v.). See also <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvgDEAJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TangibleStuffStateType</a>.