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snap:Continuant

URI

http://www.ifomis.org/bfo/1.1/snap#Continuant

Label

continuant

Description

Examples: a heart, a person, the color of a tomato, the mass of a cloud, a symphony orchestra, the disposition of blood to coagulate, the lawn and atmosphere in front of our building - Synonyms: endurant - Definition: An entity [bfo:Entity] that exists in full at any time in which it exists at all, persists through time while maintaining its identity and has no temporal parts.

Superclasses (1)

  • bfo:Entity

    • Usage

    Instances of snap:Continuant can have the following properties:

    PROPERTYTYPEDESCRIPTIONRANGE
    From class owl:Thing
    dc:contributor owl:AnnotationProperty owl:Thing
    dc:creator owl:AnnotationProperty owl:Thing
    dc:format owl:AnnotationProperty owl:Thing
    dc:identifier owl:AnnotationProperty owl:Thing
    dc:language owl:AnnotationProperty owl:Thing
    dc:publisher owl:AnnotationProperty owl:Thing
    dc:rights owl:AnnotationProperty owl:Thing
    dc:source owl:AnnotationProperty owl:Thing
    dc:title owl:AnnotationProperty owl:Thing

    Implementation

    @prefix bfo: <http://www.ifomis.org/bfo/1.1#> .
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix snap: <http://www.ifomis.org/bfo/1.1/snap#> .
@prefix span: <http://www.ifomis.org/bfo/1.1/span#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

snap:Continuant a owl:Class ;
    rdfs:label "continuant"^^xsd:string ;
    rdfs:comment "Definition: An entity [bfo:Entity] that exists in full at any time in which it exists at all, persists through time while maintaining its identity and has no temporal parts."^^xsd:string,
        "Examples: a heart, a person, the color of a tomato, the mass of a cloud, a symphony orchestra, the disposition of blood to coagulate, the lawn and atmosphere in front of our building"^^xsd:string,
        "Synonyms: endurant"^^xsd:string ;
    rdfs:subClassOf bfo:Entity ;
    owl:disjointWith span:Occurrent ;
    owl:equivalentClass [ a owl:Class ;
            owl:unionOf ( snap:DependentContinuant snap:IndependentContinuant snap:SpatialRegion ) ] .