]> 2009/04/07 OpenCyc Knowledge Base Copyright© 2001-2009 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. 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. Spectroscopy spectroscopy This is the technique of analyzing the chemical composition of a substance by seeing what sort of spectrum of electromagnetic radiation is emits when stimulated.

Spectroscopy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectroscopy A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvrOVYpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PurposefulPhysicalAction</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViFJJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">MeasuringSomething</a> is an event in which an agent uses a physical device to measure some physical attribute of a tangible object. The last part of such an event involves the perception (and perhaps recording) of a result of the measurement (see the predicate <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVkH7pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">measurementResult</a>) by some instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rHKA2rmHkEdqAAAACs71DGQ" class="cyc_term">PerceptualAgent</a>. See also the function <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjy3JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">MeasuringFn</a>. MeasuringSomething measuring event 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 Spectroscopy spectroscopy This is the technique of analyzing the chemical composition of a substance by seeing what sort of spectrum of electromagnetic radiation is emits when stimulated. Spectroscopy spectroscopy This is the technique of analyzing the chemical composition of a substance by seeing what sort of spectrum of electromagnetic radiation is emits when stimulated. Spectroscopy spectroscopy This is the technique of analyzing the chemical composition of a substance by seeing what sort of spectrum of electromagnetic radiation is emits when stimulated. IntelligentAgentActivity intelligent agent activity A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVioQZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Action</a> (q.v.). Every instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rGGsQIeqUEdqTjAACs6hPlA" class="cyc_term">IntelligentAgentActivity</a> is an action, each of whose "doers" (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwP1HmJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">doneBy</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rQ9dkLFWAQdeQE7cXOq70Qg" class="cyc_term">animateDoer</a>s) is either an <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVinb5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">IntelligentAgent</a> or a group of such agents (i.e. a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjmoJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Group</a> all of whose members are intelligent agents). Specializations of this collection include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViN65wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">HumanActivity</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjVMpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Reading</a>. scientific technique ScientificTechnique This is the collection of types of actions which are specific to the pursuit of scientific fields of study. The collection includes (at least) laboratory techniques, techniques used to gather data in the field, and those involved in the use of any <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwQCJVJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ScientificInstrument</a> for any scientific purpose. A collection of collections. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rv48ocpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AccomplishmentType</a> is a type of events that include, by their nature, a 'culmination' or completion point, conceptually distinct from their mere temporal ending. Moreover, each instance of an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rv48ocpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AccomplishmentType</a> is 'quantized' in the following sense: if <code>EVENT-1</code> and <code>EVENT-2</code> are instances of the same instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rv48ocpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AccomplishmentType</a>, then <code>EVENT-2</code> cannot be a proper sub-event of <code>EVENT-1</code>, nor can <code>EVENT-1</code> be a proper sub-event of <code>EVENT-2</code>. type of accomplishment AccomplishmentType 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