An 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.
An entity that has temporal parts and that happens, unfolds or develops through time.
b is an independent continuant = Def. b is a continuant which is such that there is no c and no t such that b s-depends_on c at t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [017-002])
p is a process = Def. p is an occurrent that has temporal proper parts and for some time t, p s-depends_on some material entity at t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [083-003])
b is a relational specifically dependent continuant = Def. b is a specifically dependent continuant and there are n > 1 independent continuants c1, … cn which are not spatial regions are such that for all 1 i < j n, ci and cj share no common parts, are such that for each 1 i n, b s-depends_on ci at every time t during the course of b’s existence (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [131-004])
b is a specifically dependent continuant = Def. b is a continuant & there is some independent continuant c which is not a spatial region and which is such that b s-depends_on c at every time t during the course of b’s existence. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [050-003])
An independent continuant that is spatially extended whose identity is independent of that of other entities and can be maintained through time.
A part of an astronomical body which is primarily composed of solid material.
A material entity which other material entities in an environmental system are primarily or partially composed of.
A layer of some material entity which is adjacent to one or more of its external boundaries and directly interacts with its immediate surroundings.
A system which has the disposition to environ one or more material entities.
A material entity which 1) is spatially continuous, 2) is composed of material of comparable thickness, composition, and physical properties, and 3) is physically distinct from adjacent portions of environmental material.
An anthropogenic environment is an environmental system which is the product of human activity.
A layer which is determined by a form of vegetation.
Outer space is a hard vacuum containing a low density of particles, predominantly a plasma of hydrogen and helium as well as electromagnetic radiation, magnetic fields, neutrinos, dust and cosmic rays that exists between celestial bodies.
An object which is naturally occuring, bound together by gravitational or electromagnetic forces, and surrounded by space.
An object which is composed of one or more gravitationally bound structures that are associated with a position in space.
A material part of an astronomical body.
An environmental material which is in a solid state.
An environmental system in which minimal to no anthropisation has occurred and non-human agents are the primary determinants of the system's dynamics and composition.
A process during which a natural environmental system is altered by human action.
An environmental system which is determined by materials bearing roughly homogeneous qualities.
environmental system determined by a quality
An environmental system within which an environmental material strongly influences the system's composition and properties.
environmental system determined by a material
An environmental system which is determined by a living organism.
environmental system determined by an organism
An environmental system determined by a green plant.
An environmental system determined by an animal.
An environmental system which includes both living and non-living components.
A quality which inheres in a astronomical body or astronomical body part by virtue of the variation in its material composition, participation in geological processes, and the variation in is land- and hydroforms.
A process during which an ecosystem, its parts, or the processes it participates in are modified by human intervention to accomplish an objective.
A canopy which is composed of the aboveground portion, or crowns, of a community of crop plants.
A vegetation layer which is formed by a collection of individual plant crowns, themselves constituting part of the aboveground portion of a plant community.
An ecosystem which 1) is determined by communities of annual crops, perennial woody crops, or by actively tilled land, 2) is primarily used for agricultural activity, and 3) contains no village or larger human settlement.
A layer which is primarily composed of some solid material, allowing for non-solid parts such as interstitial pockets of gas or liquid.
A surface layer which is composed primarily of solid environmental material.
An anthropogenic environmental process which includes all human activities undertaken in a natural, semi-natural, or anthropised environment.
A process during which an ecosystem - natural or anthropised - is changed by the actions of humans.
anthropogenic ecosystem conversion process
A planned process during which humans access and obtain resources, benefits, or services from a natural or anthropised ecosystem.
A land use process during which terrestrial environments are modified such that they can grow crop plants or allow the rearing of animals to provide food, fiber, medicines, or other products used by humans.
A surface layer where the solid or liquid material of an astronomical body comes into contact with an atmosphere or outer space.
A layer which separates two portions of environmental material which possess 1) differing compositions, 2) a discontinuity of some property, or 3) some derivative of some property in a direction normal to the interface.
An object which is composed primarily of an environmental material
An mass of environmental material which is composed primarily of a solid environmental material
An mass of environmental materials which has appreciable quantities of several individual materials, such that the removal of one would convert the mass into a different entity.
mass of compounded environmental materials
A part of an astronomical body which is composed of a continuous medium bearing liquid, gaseous, and solid material in variable quantities.
A surface layer of an astronomical body which is primarily composed of solid material and is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
An ecosystem which primarily occurs on land.
An environmental process either driven by or primarily impacting the parts or emergent properties of an ecosystem.
An ecosystem which is formed as a result of human activity or impact.
A process in which includes the components of an environmental system as participants.
A process during which humans apply technology to alter the magnitude, duration, rate, or impact of an environmental process.
anthropogenic modulatory intervention process
An environmental process which is driven by the action of humans.
The quality of a environmental system process.
An environment which is determined by an anatomical entity.
A biological process is the execution of a genetically-encoded biological module or program. It consists of all the steps required to achieve the specific biological objective of the module. A biological process is accomplished by a particular set of molecular functions carried out by specific gene products (or macromolecular complexes), often in a highly regulated manner and in a particular temporal sequence.
A process that realizes a plan which is the concretization of a plan specification.
A material entity that is an individual living system, such as animal, plant, bacteria or virus, that is capable of replicating or reproducing, growth and maintenance in the right environment. An organism may be unicellular or made up, like humans, of many billions of cells divided into specialized tissues and organs.
A dependent entity that inheres in a bearer by virtue of how the bearer is related to other entities
A quality of a single physical entity inhering in the bearer by virtue of the bearer's size or shape or structure.
A quality of a single process inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearer's occurrence.
A morphology quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearer's relative position, shape, arrangements and connectivity of an organism's various parts; the pattern underlying its form.
A quality of a single process inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearer's being uninterrupted in time, sequence, substance, or extent.
A quality of a physical entity that exists through action of continuants at the physical level of organisation in relation to other entities.
A quality which inheres in a continuant.
multiply inhering quality of a physical entity
A physical quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearer's exhibiting the physical characteristics of an entity characterized by particles arranged such that their shape and volume are relatively stable.
A quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearer's processing the form of a thin plate sheet or layer.
A quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of its constitution.
A temporal distribution pattern of process occurrences within a regulation/reference process.
A material entity consisting of multiple components that are causally integrated.
Biological entity that is either an individual member of a biological species or constitutes the structural organization of an individual member of a biological species.