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This ontology is designed to represent artifacts that are common to multiple domains along with their models, specifications, and functions.
Artifact Ontology
Version 2.1
Deflecting Prism
A Prism designed to deflect a beam of light entering the Prism by a fixed angle.
Cooling Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in a process in which the thermal energy of a system decreases.
Propulsion Control System
A Control System that consists of control devices, displays, indicators, or modules designed to control a Propulsion System.
Shotgun
A Long Gun that fires packets of shot, a single slug, a sabot, or a specialty round (such as tear gas, bolo shell, or a breaching round) over shorter ranges than that of Rifles and with less accuracy.
Title Document
A Legal Instrument that is designed as evidence of ownership.
Power Inverting Artifact Function
A Current Conversion Artifact Function that is realized by processes in which some Material Artifact is used to convert direct current (DC) to alternating current (AC).
Container
A Material Artifact that is designed to contain (wholly or partially) some material entity.
Sensor Platform
A Material Entity that bears a Sensor Platform Artifact Function or Sensor Platform Role.
Radio Communication Reception Artifact Function
A Communication Reception Artifact Function that is realized during events in which a Material Artifact receives information transmitted from another Material Artifact, where the transmission of information occurs using radio waves.
Sensor Deployment Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that inheres in Material Artifacts that are designed to support or convey one or more Sensors while the Sensors are realizing their own Artifact Functions.
Electronic Stock
Stock that consists of Bytes.
Dispersive Prism
A Prism designed to break up a beam of light entering the Prism into its constituent spectral colors by leveraging the refractive index of light based on its Frequency.
Nuclear Reactor
A Power Source that is designed to initiate and control a self-sustained nuclear chain reaction to produce power in the form of heat, which can be transferred to a working fluid for further conversion to mechanical or electrical energy.
Conveyance Artifact Function
A Motion Artifact Function that is realized in a process in which the bearer of the function conveys entities from one location to another.
Waste Management Artifact Function
A Service Artifact Function that is realized in processes of collecting, transporting, processing, recycling, monitoring, or disposing of waste materials.
System Role
A Role that inheres in an entity in virtue of its parts or elements being arranged in such a way that they together exhibit behavior or meaning that they do not exhibit individually.
Portion of Solid Fuel
A Portion of Fuel that is stored in a solid state.
Portion of Solid Propellant
A Portion of Propellant that is stored in a solid state.
Flow Control Valve
A Valve that is designed to regulate the flow or Pressure of a fluid.
Flow Control Valves are often more complex than a simple Valve and typically include an Actuator that is capable of automatically adjusting the state of the valve in response to signals from a connected Sensor or Controller.
Random Wire Antenna
A Wire Antenna that consists of a long wire suspended above the ground with a length that does not bear a relation to the wavelength of the radio waves used and which is typically used as a receiving antenna on the long, medium, and short wave bands.
Banknote
A Portion of Cash that consists of a portable slips of paper or fabric designed to bear some specified Financial Value.
Very High Frequency Communication Instrument
A Radio Communication Instrument that is designed to participate in some process that has process part some Very High Frequency.
Ground Motor Vehicle
A Ground Vehicle that is designed to receive its motive power from an Engine and is not designed to travel on rails.
Stirling Engine
An External Combusion Engine that is designed to compress and expand some working fluid at different temperatures, such that there is a net conversion of heat energy to mechanical work.
Reaction Engine
Reaction Motor
An Engine that provides propulsion by expelling Reaction Mass.
Mobile Telephone
A Telephone that is connected to a Telephone Network by radio waves.
Telephone Line
Telephone Circuit
A Telecommunication Network Line that consists of a physical wire or other signaling medium that is designed to be part of a Telephone Network.
Frequency Measurement Artifact Function
A Measurement Artifact Function that is realized during events in which a Material Artifact is used to measure the Frequency of a specified object or class of objects.
Material Copy of a Book
Book
A Material Copy of a Document that is designed to carry some specific Information Content Entity by means of ink, paper, parchment, or other materials fastened together to hinge at one side.
Military Artifact Function
A Service Artifact Function that is realized in processes related to the armed services.
Material Copy of a Transcript
Transcript
A Material Copy of a Document that is designed to carry some specific Information Content Entity that was originally recorded in a different medium.
Optical Microscope
Light Microscope
A Microscope that is designed to use visible light and a system of Optical Lenses to produce a significantly enlarged image of the Object.
Wired Communication Artifact Function
A Communication Artifact Function that is realized in a process that conveys meaningful signs by means of a (usually cylindrical) flexible strand or rod of metal.
Cutting Weapon
A Weapon that is designed to inflict harm, damage, or incapacity by means of separating some portion of its target into two or more portions through the application of acutely directed force.
Autopilot System
Autopilot
A Vehicle Control System that is designed to enable some Agent to control the trajectory of a Vehicle without constant 'hands-on' control.
Firearm
A Projectile Launcher that is designed to launch Bullets or Cartridges.
Infrared Telescope
A Telescope that is designed to aid in the observation of spatially distant Objects by means of collecting and focusing infrared light to form an enhanced image of the Object.
Portion of Coolant
A Portion of Material that is designed to be used in a thermal control system to reduce or maintain the temperature of an object to or at a specified level.
Bidirectional Transducer
A Transducer that is designed to receive a signal in the form of physical phenomena and convert it into an electrical signal, and vice versa.
Preferred Stock
Stock that entitles its holder to receive a certain level of dividend payments before any dividends can be issued to other holders.
Control Surface
A Material Artifact that is designed to deflect air, water, or another medium around its surface in order to change the Attitude of a Vehicle by rotating the Vehicle on one or more of its Axes of Rotation.
Propulsion System
A Material Artifact that is designed to facilitate the movement of material entities from one location to another and which consists of a source of mechanical power and a means of converting this power into propulsive force to generate the movement.
Complex Optical Lens
Lens System
An Optical Lens consisting of more than one Simple Optical Lenses.
Hecht, Eugene (1987). Optics (2nd ed.). Addison Wesley. ISBN 978-0-201-11609-0. Chapters 5 & 6.
Electrical Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized during events in which a Material Artifact is used to perform a process involving electrical power.
Portion of Liquid Oxygen
A Portion of Cryogenic Material that is composed (almost) entirely of liquid oxygen.
Vehicle Compartment
Compartment
A Material Artifact that is designed to partition a Vehicle into subdivisions for various purposes.
Air Inlet
Air Intake
A Fluid Control Artifact that consists of an opening that is designed to capture and direct the flow of air into the system it is part of.
Ventilation Control Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in processes in which some Material Artifact is used to control the quality of air in some space.
Pump
A Fluid Control Artifact that is designed to impart motion to a portion of fluid to transport it within a system through the use of mechanical action.
Information Processing Artifact
A Material Artifact that is designed to use algorithms to transform some Information Content Entity into another Information Content Entity.
Artifact Function Specification
A Prescriptive Information Content Entity that prescribes some Material Artifact Function and which is part of some Material Artifact Model.
Vehicle Track Point
An Object Track Point that is where a Vehicle is or was located during some motion.
Portion of Liquid Hydrogen
A Portion of Cryogenic Material that is composed (almost) entirely of liquid hydrogen.
Power Transformer
A Material Artifact that is designed to transfer electrical energy between two or more circuits through electromagnetic induction.
Recording Device
An Information Processing Artifact that is designed to capture some information and store it in some recording format on some storage medium.
Optical Instrument
A Material Artifact that is designed to process light waves.
Light waves can be processed in a variety of ways including via reflection, refraction, diffraction, deflection, focusing, collimation, dispersion, and interference.
Optical Instruments are typically constructed for the purpose of being used to aid in vision or the analysis of light.
Cargo Cabin
A Vehicle Compartment that is used to store goods or materials during transportation.
Incendiary Weapon
A Weapon that is designed to inflict harm, damage, or incapacity by means of starting a fire.
Flight Transponder
A Radio Transponder that is designed to produce a specified response (typically for identification, location, or status update purposes) when it receives a radio-frequency interrogation.
Telephone Network
A Telecommunication Network that is designed to allow telephone calls to be made between two or more parties connected to the network.
Generator Control Unit
A Control System that is designed to regulate the voltage of some Electrical Power Source.
Hand Gun
A Firearm that is designed to have a relatively short barrel and to be held in one or two hands and to be fired without being braced against the shoulder.
Lithium-ion Electric Battery
A Secondary Cell Electric Battery that produces electricity when lithium ions move from anode to cathode.
Material Copy of a Timekeeping Instrument
Timekeeping Instrument
An Information Bearing Artifact that is designed to carry some specific Information Content Entity that is about some temporal region.
Manual Tool
Hand Tool
A Tool that is designed to be powered by manual labor rather than by an engine.
Electrical Connector Artifact Function
An Electrical Conduction Artifact Function that is realized by processes in which some Material Artifact is used to join electrical terminations to create an electrical circuit.
Large-Scale Rocket Launcher
A Rocket Launcher that is designed to contain multiple Rocket Launchers.
Detergent Artifact Function
A Surfactant Artifact Function that is realized in a process that cleans substances in dilute solutions.
Ultraviolet Telescope
UV Telescope
A Telescope that is designed to aid in the observation of spatially distant Objects by means of collecting and focusing ultraviolet light to form an enhanced image of the Object.
Arrow
A Portion of Ammunition that is designed to be fired from a Bow and consists of a long straight stiff shaft with stabilizers (fletchings) and a slot (the nock) on one end and a weighted tip (the arrowhead) on the other end.
Fragrance Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in processes of emitting a pleasant or sweet odor.
Material Copy of a Certificate
Certificate
An Information Bearing Artifact that bears an Information Content Entity which attests to certain demonstrated characteristics of an Object, Person, or Organization.
Minimum Speed Artifact Function
A Speed Artifact Function that is realized in some process in which the Material Artifact bearing the Artifact Function attains the lowest speed at which that Material Artifact is designed to operate.
Facility
A Material Artifact that is designed as a building or campus dedicated to some specific purpose.
Telephone Subscriber Line
A Telephone Line that connects a Communication Endpoint to another node in a Telecommunication Network to enable service to a user's Telephone.
Electrical Contact Artifact Function
An Electrical Conduction Artifact Function that is realized by processes in which some Material Artifact is used as an endpoint of an electrical circuit from which an electrical current is passed via physical contact with the endpoint.
Camera
An Imaging Instrument that is designed to form and digitally or physically record an image of an entity.
Rifle
A Long Gun that is designed to have a rifled barrel and to fire single Bullets over long ranges with high accuracy.
Friction Reduction Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in processes of reducing the force resisting the relative motion of surfaces in contact.
Engine
Motor
A Material Artifact that is designed to convert one form of energy into mechanical energy.
Chemical Weapon
A Weapon that is designed to inflict harm, damage, or incapacity by means of releasing toxic chemicals.
Moving Target Indication Artifact Function
A Radar Imaging Artifact Function that inheres in Material Artifacts that are designed to identify and produce visual representations of moving entities by using a radar to emit successive phase coherent pulses, which are sampled and added to the subsequent pulse to cancel out signals from non-moving entities such that only signals from moving entities remain and are displayed.
Radio Telescope
A Telescope that is designed to aid in the observation of spatially distant Objects by means of collecting and focusing radio waves to form an enhanced image of the Object.
A Radio Telescope consists of a specialized Antenna and a Radio Receiver and is typically used to receive radio waves from sources in outer space.
Shell
A Portion of Ammunition that is designed to be a non-self-propelled projectile and to carry a payload (explosive or other) over a relatively short distance.
Reflecting Optical Telescope
Reflecting Telescope
Reflector
An Optical Telescope that is designed to aid in the observation of spatially distant Objects by means of collecting and focusing visible light via reflection through the use of one or more curved Mirrors to form an enhanced image of the Object.
Diffraction Grating
An Optical Instrument with a periodic structure that is designed to split and defract a beam of light into several beams travelling in different directions.
Torpedo Tube
A Projectile Launcher that is designed to launch Torpedoes.
Stock Certificate
Stock that consists of a Certificate.
Lighting System
A Material Artifact that is designed to emit light within some area.
Propeller
Propelling Screw
A Material Artifact that is designed to convert rotary motion from an Engine or other mechanical Power Source into propulsive Force.
Heat Sink
A Material Artifact that is designed to regulate the temperature of a computer by the passive transfer of heat away from other components in the computer.
Fragmentation Artifact Function
A Damaging Artifact Function that is realized in a process in which the structural integrity of an entity is impaired because of a detonation which causes fragmentation.
Road
A Land Transportation Artifact that is designed to enable Ground Vehicles to travel from one location to another.
Shaft
A Material Artifact that is designed to rotate and transmit Torque, Power, or Rotational Motion from one machine element to another.
A Shaft is usually used to connect other components of a drive train that cannot be connected directly either because of the distance between them or the need to allow for relative movement between those components.
Nozzle
A Fluid Control Artifact that is designed to control the speed, direction, rate, shape, or pressure of the flow of fluid exiting it.
Transportation Artifact
A Material Artifact that is fixed in place and designed to enable the movement of Vehicles and Agents from one location to another.
Portion of Cryogenic Material
A Portion of Material that has been reduced to a very low temperature (below -180 degrees Celcius).
Fluid Control Artifact
A Material Artifact that is designed to manipulate the flow of a fluid (i.e. a liquid or a gas).
Hydraulic Fluid Reservoir
A Container that is designed to store some hydraulic fluid for use in some Hyrdraulic Power Source.
Hearing Aid
A Medical Artifact that is designed to improve hearing for its user.
Catalyst Artifact Function
A Chemical Reaction Artifact Function that is realized in a process in which the rate of a chemical reaction is increased due to the participation of an additional substance, without that substance being consumed in the reaction.
Cannon
A Projectile Launcher that is designed to use a controlled explosion to launch a relatively large Portion of Ammunition, such as a Round Shot or a Shell, at a significant Velocity.
Radio Transmitter
A Radio Communication Instrument that is an electronic device that is designed to generate a radio frequency alternating current, which can be applied to a Radio Antenna to be transmitted as radio waves.
Communication Interference Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized during events in which a Material Artifact is used to interfere with the transmission of information for the purpose of preventing communication.
Nuclear Weapon
A Weapon that is designed to inflict harm, damage, or incapacity by means of a destructive nuclear reaction, either through fission or through a combination of fission and fusion.
Torpedo
A Precision-Guided Missile that is designed to be fired into a body of water, be self-propelled through the water, and carry an explosive payload.
Counterfeit Financial Instrument
A Counterfeit Instrument that is designed to be a fake replica of some legally sanctioned Financial Instrument.
Emergency Locator Transmitter
A Radio Transmitter that is designed to signal distress and provide positional data for the entity it is located on.
Inertial Navigation System
INS
A Navigation System that is designed to continuously calculate via dead reckoning the position, orientation, and velocity of a moving object without the need for external references.
Power Source
A Material Artifact that is designed to supply power to some other Material Artifact.
Radar Imaging Artifact Function
An Imaging Artifact Function that inheres in Material Artifacts that are designed to produce visual representations of entities using radio waves.
Artifact Identifier
A Designative Information Content Entity which designates some Material Artifact.
Air-Breathing Jet Engine
Ducted Jet Engine
A Jet Engine that is propelled by a jet of hot exhaust gases formed from air that is drawn into the Engine via an Air Inlet.
Shoulder-Fired Rocket Launcher
A Rocket Launcher that is designed to be small enough to be carried by a single person and fired while supported on the person's shoulder.
Prosthetic Leg
A Prosthesis that is designed to replace a missing leg.
Vehicle Transmission
Gearbox
Transmission
A Power Transmission Artifact that is designed to vary the output speed and torque in a rotating power transfer system.
Alternating Current Power Source
An Electrical Power Source that is designed to transfer electrical power in the form of alternating current.
Intercommunication System
A Communication System that is designed to enable some Act of Communication between end points within a building, small collection of buildings, or within a small area of service.
Microscope
An Imaging Instrument that is designed to enable users to see Objects that are otherwise too small to be seen by the naked eye by producing a significantly enlarged image of the Object.
Hinge
A Machine Bearing that is designed to limit the angle of Rotation between two solid objects.
Portion of Food
A Portion of Processed Material that is designed to be consumed and ingested for nutrition or taste.
Healthcare Artifact Function
A Service Artifact Function that is realized in processes of treating and preventing illness.
Grenade
Hand Grenade
An Explosive Weapon that is designed to be relatively small and to be thrown by hand.
Filtration Artifact Function
A Filter Function that is realized in a process in which some solid entity is prevented from moving along with some quantity of liquid.
Telecommunication Switching Node
A Telecommunication Network Node that is capable of redirecting a communication transmission to another Telecommunication Network Node.
Portion of Liquid Helium
A Portion of Cryogenic Material that is composed (almost) entirely of liquid helium.
Electronic Signal Processing Artifact Function
A Signal Processing Artifact Function that inheres in Material Artifacts that are designed to process or transfer information contained in electronic signals.
Artifact Design
A Prescriptive Information Content Entity that is a specification of an object, manifested by an agent, intended to accomplish goals, in a particular environment, using a set of primitive components, satisfying a set of requirements, subject to constraints.
Residential Artifact Function
A Service Artifact Function that is realized in processes of residing in a dwelling or home.
Artifact Function
A Function that inheres in some Material Artifact in virtue of that Material Artifact being designed to be used in processes that require that Function to be realized.
Radio Transponder
Transmitter-Responder
A Radio Communication Instrument that is an electronic device that acts as both a Radio Transmitter and responder and is used to wirelessly receive and transmit electrical signals.
Transportation Infrastructure
An Infrastructure System that has continuant part one or more Transportation Artifacts and bears a function that, if realized, is realized in Acts of Cargo Transportation
Gas Turbine
Combustion Turbine
An Internal Combustion Engine that has a rotating compressor and a turbine and is designed to operate utilizing continous Combustion to produce Thrust, either directly via exhaust or indirectly via a prop.
Interphone
An Intercommunication System that that is designed to facilitate some Act of Communication between agents by means of audio messages.
Rocket-Propelled Grenade
An Unguided Rocket that is designed to contain an explosive warhead, be fired from a Shoulder-Fired Rocket Launcher, and be used against Tanks.
Fan
A Fluid Control Artifact that consists of a rotating arrangement of vanes or blades that are designed to act on a portion of fluid to create flow within it.
Mortar
A Cannon that is designed to fire projectiles at relatively low velocities over relatively short ranges.
Prosthetic Arm
A Prosthesis that is designed to replace a missing arm.
Brake
A Material Artifact that is designed to inhibit the Vehicle's Motion by absorbing energy from a moving system.
Reciprocating Steam Engine
A Steam Engine that is designed to use one or more reciprocating pistons to convert pressure into a rotating motion.
Surfactant Artifact Function
An Emulsifier Artifact Function that is realized in a process that lowers the surface tension between two liquids or between a liquid and a solid.
Communication Instrument
A Material Artifact that is designed to facilitate communication between at least two entities.
Electronic Bond
A Bond that consists of Bytes.
Filter
A Material Artifact that bears a Filter Function.
Cooling System
An Environment Control System that is designed to cool the air or objects in a Site.
Satellite Artifact
A Spacecraft that is designed to Orbit a Space Object (typically Earth).
Research Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized during events in which a Material Artifact is used to perform research on a specified entity or class of entities.
Refracting Optical Telescope
Refracting Telescope
Refractor
An Optical Telescope that is designed to aid in the observation of spatially distant Objects by means of collecting and focusing visible light via refraction through the use of one or more Lenses to form an enhanced image of the Object.
Rocket Engine
Thruster
A Jet Engine that is designed to use only stored Rocket Propellant to form a high speed propulsive jet in order to generate Thrust.
Most rocket engines are also Internal Combustion Engines, however non-combusting forms also exist. For example, an untied balloon full of air that is released and allowed to zoom around the room may be both a Rocket Engine and a Physically Powered Engine.
Wireless Telecommunication Network
Wireless Network
A Telecommunication Network that uses wireless connections to connect Telecommunication Network Nodes.
Pneumatic Motor
Air Motor
Compressed Air Engine
A Physically Powered Engine that converts potential energy stored in a portion of compressed air into mechanical energy.
Power Transformer Rectifier Unit
TRU
A Material Artifact that is designed to perform the functions of both a Rectifier and a Transformer.
Portion of Gallium Arsenide
Portion of GaAs
A Portion of Material that is composed of a compound of the elements gallium and arsenic.
Material Copy of a Spreadsheet
Spreadsheet
A Material Copy of a Document that is designed to carry some Information Content Entity in an interactive, tabular form.
Internal Combustion Engine
A Combustion Engine that is designed to have an internal Combustion Chamber where portions of Fuel and Oxidizer mixture are burned to generate thermal energy that is then converted into mechanical energy.
Combustion Chamber
Burner
Combustor
Flame Holder
A Material Artifact that is designed to wholly or partially bound an internal Site where a Combustion process is intended to occur.
Diffraction Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized by a Material Artifact participating in a diffraction event in which the Material Artifact forces a wave to bend around the corners of an obstacle or aperture into the region of geometrical shadow of the obstacle.
Electrical Resistance Artifact Function
An Electrical Artifact Function that is realized in processes in which a Material Artifact opposes the flow of an electric current.
Spark Ignition System
An Ignition System that is designed to produce a spark in order to initiate an Ignition process.
Speed Measurement Artifact Function
A Measurement Artifact Function that is realized during events in which a Material Artifact is used to measure the Speed of a specified object's or class of objects' Motion.
Oxidizer Artifact Function
A Chemical Reaction Artifact Function that is realized in a process in which electrons are removed from a reactant in a redox reaction.
Electron Microscope
A Microscope that is designed to use a beam of accelerated electrons to illuminate the target and produce a significantly enlarged image of the Object.
Anti-Microbial Artifact Function
A Pesticide Artifact Function that is realized in a process which causes illness in, or the death of, a microorganism.
Prosthetic Hand
A Prosthesis that is designed to replace a missing hand.
Computer
An Information Processing Artifact that is designed to execute an arbitrary set of arithmetic or logical operations automatically.
Communication Reception Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized during events in which a Material Artifact is used to receive information that has been transmitted for the purpose of communiction.
Armored Fighting Vehicle
A Ground Motor Vehicle that is designed to be armored and used to transport and support military personal in combat missions.
Railway Junction
A Land Transportation Artifact that is designed to enable a Train to switch between the tracks of two routes.
External Combustion Engine
A Combustion Engine that is designed to have an external Combustion Chamber where portions of Fuel and Oxidizer mixture are burned to generate thermal energy to heat the working fluid, which transfers energy to the Engine where it is converted into mechanical energy.
Simple Optical Lens
An Optical Lens consisting of a single piece of transparent material.
X-ray Microscope
A Microscope that is designed to use Electromagnetic Radiation in the soft X-ray band to produce a significantly enlarged image of the Object.
Enhancing Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in processes of intensifying, increainsg, or further improving the quality, value, or extent of some entity.
Watercraft
A Vehicle that is designed to convey passengers, cargo, or equipment from one location to another by water travel.
Weapon
A Material Artifact that is designed to destroy or inflict damage to structures or systems, or to kill or wound living things by creating specific lethal or nonlethal effects.
Nonlethal effects include all outcomes short of death or destruction. This is captured by the fact that Damaged Stasis and Wounded Stasis are defined in terms of impairment of the Independent Continuant that participates in them.
Motion Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in a process in which an entity changes its position with respect to time.
Collimation Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized by a Material Artifact participating in a collimation event in which the Material Artifact narrows a beam of particles or waves by either causing the spatial cross-section of the beam to become smaller or by causing the directions of motion of the beam's constituents to be aligned in a specifc direction of Motion.
Timekeeping Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized during events in which a Material Artifact is used to keep track of and report the current time.
Environment Control System
A Material Artifact that is designed to control the temperature, air quality, or other feature of a Site that is relevant to the comfort or operation of entities located within that Site.
Controlling air quality typically involves temperature control, oxygen replenishment, and removal of moisture, odor, smoke, heat, dust, airborne bacteria, carbon dioxide, and other undesired gases or particulates.
Compression Ignition System
An Ignition System that is designed to generate heat by compressing a portion of fuel and oxidizer mixture in order to initiate an Ignition process.
Railway
A Land Transportation Artifact that is designed to enable Trains to transport passengers and goods.
Portion of Material
A Portion of Processed Material that was produced to be used as the input for another Act of Material Artifact Processing.
Coupling
A Material Artifact that is designed to connect two Shafts together at their ends for the purpose of transmitting power.
Orientation Control Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized by processes in which some Material Artifact is used to control the Orientation of some object.
Armored Personnel Carrier
An Armored Fighting Vehicle that is designed to transport infantry to the battlefield but which are not usually designed to take part in a direct-fire battle.
Material Copy of a Academic Degree
Academic Degree
A Material Copy of a Certificate that is issued by an Educational Organization to a Person to indicate that the Person has satisfactorily completed a course of study, or as an honorary recognition of the Person's achievement.
Material Copy of a Warning Message
Warning Message
A Material Copy of a Notification Message that is designed to carry an Information Content Entity that describes a possible or impending threat.
Portion of Cash
A Financial Instrument that is designed to be a ready medium of exchange.
Fuel Cell
An Electrical Power Source that consists in part of an anode, a cathode, and an electrolyte; converts chemical energy from a fuel into electricity through a chemical reaction of positively charged hydrogen ions with an oxidizing agent (typically oxygen); and, if given a continuous source of fuel and oxidizing agent, can continuously produce electricity.
A Fuel Cell differs from a Battery in that it requires a continuous source of fuel and oxygen to sustain the chemical reaction, whereas a Battery only uses chemicals already stored inside it.
Life Support Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized during events in which a Material Artifact materially affects an organism, where this causes that organism to continue living in a situation where death would otherwise occur.
Research and Development Artifact Function
A Service Artifact Function that is realized in processes of producing new knowledge or of devising new applications of existing knowledge.
Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging Artifact Function
A Radar Imaging Artifact Function that inheres in Material Artifacts that are designed to produce visual representations of entities using the motion of a radar antenna over a targeted region to create a synthetic aperture.
Tripod
A Material Artifact that consists of three legs and a platform that joins them and which is designed to support the weight and maintain the stability of objects that are attached to or rested on the platform.
Detonating Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in processes of combustion involving a supersonic exothermic front accelerating through a medium that eventually drives a shock front propagating directly in front of it.
Material Copy of a Code List
Code List
A Material Copy of a List that contains an ordered sequence of Information Bearing Entities that carry Code Identifiers.
Radio Communication Interference Artifact Function
A Communication Interference Artifact Function that is realized during events in which a Material Artifact is used to interfere with the transmission of information via radio waves.
Wire Antenna
A Radio Antenna that consists primarily of a length of wire.
Optical Processing Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized by a Material Artifact participating in a visible light processing event.
Pneumatic Power Source
A Power Source that is designed to generate, control, or transmit power by means of compressed air or compressed inert gases.
Pulsejet Engine
Pulse Jet
Pulsejet
An Air-Breathing Jet Engine that is capable of operating statically and uses intermittent (pulsing) Combustion of the fuel-oxidizer mixture before expelling the exhaust out through the rear Propelling Nozzle to generate Thrust.
Air Conditioning Unit
AC Unit
A Cooling System that is designed to remove excess heat and humidity from the air in an enclosed space.
Gamma-ray Telescope
A Telescope that is designed to aid in the observation of spatially distant Objects by means of collecting and focusing Gamma-rays to form an enhanced image of the Object.
Jet Engine
A Reaction Engine that discharges a fast moving jet that generates Thrust by jet propulsion.
Some (most) jet engines utilize turbines, but some do not. Most rocket engines do not utilize turbines, but some do.
Cutting Artifact Function
A Damaging Artifact Function that is realized in a process in which the structural integrity of an entity is impaired by being opened or divided.
Bond Certificate
A Bond that consists of a Certificate.
Financial Instrument
A Material Artifact that is designed to be a tradeable asset and that is legally sanctioned.
Defoliant Artifact Function
An Herbicide Artifact Function that is realized in a process that causes a plant to lose its leaves.
Telescope
An Imaging Instrument that is designed to aid in the observation of spatially distant Objects by means of collecting and focusing Electromagnetic Radiation to form an enhanced image of the Object.
Water Transportation Artifact
A Transportation Artifact that facilitates the movement of Agents and Vehicles via water.
Explosive Weapon
A Weapon that is designed to inflict harm, damage, or incapacity by means of a violent release of energy caused by the exothermic reaction of an explosive material.
Payload
A Material Entity that is transported by a Vehicle during an Act of Location Change for the purpose of being delivered to or performing one or more functions at a predefined location.
Depending on the nature of the Flight or Mission, the Payload of a Vehicle may include cargo, passengers, flight crew, munitions, scientific instruments or experiments, or other equipment. Extra fuel, when optionally carried, is also considered part of the payload.
In each case, the Payload is what provides the immediate reason for performing the Act of Location Change (e.g. transporting the passengers of a commercial airline flight to their destination; transporting food, fuel, oxygen, research equipment, and spare parts to the International Space Station; or conveying an array of sensors, cameras, and communications systems so they can operate during a Sun-Synchronous Earth Orbit).
Dam
A Material Artifact that is designed to impound surface water or underground streams.
Sensor
A Material Entity that bears a Sensor Function or Sensor Role.
Article of Solid Waste
A Portion of Waste Material that has a low liquid content.
Quality Specification
A Prescriptive Information Content Entity that prescribes some Quality.
Power Rectifier
A Material Artifact that is designed to convert alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC).
Tool
A Material Artifact that is designed to assist in the performance of manual or mechanical work and not to be consumed in that process.
Controllable Pitch Propeller
Variable-Pitch Propeller
A Propeller whose blades are designed to be alterable by rotating the blades about their vertical axis by means of mechanical or hydraulic arrangement.
Artifact Location
A Site that is the location of some Material Artifact.
Portion of Propellant
A Portion of Material that is designed to be used as an input in a Propulsion Process to produce Thrust.
Material Copy of a Instrument Display Panel
Instrument Display Panel
An Information Bearing Artifact that is designed to carry information about some Material Artifact that is derived by the instrumentation Sensors of that Material Artifact.
Valve
A Fluid Control Artifact that is designed to regulate, direct, or control the flow of fluid by opening, closing, or partially obstructing the fluid from moving along a passageway.
Legal Artifact Function
A Service Artifact Function that is realized in processes of giving legal advice to clients drafting legal documents for clients and representing clients in legal negotiations and court proceedings such as lawsuits.
Imaging Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that inheres in Material Artifacts that are designed to create one or more new Images.
Navigation Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized during events in which a Material Artifact is used to determine the precise location of itself or another object and plan a route to a specified destination.
Truck
A Ground Motor Vehicle that is designed to be used to transport cargo.
Trucks vary greatly in their size and power -- ranging from small ultra-light trucks to enormous heavy trucks. Trucks also vary greatly in their configurations -- ranging from very basic flatbeds or box trucks to highly specialized cargo carriers. Trucks may also be configured to mount specialized equipment, such as in the case of fire trucks, concrete mixers, and suction excavators.
Infrared Camera
Thermal Imaging Camera
Thermographic Camera
A Camera that is designed to form and record an image generated from infrared radiation.
Ground Vehicle
A Vehicle that is designed to convey passengers, cargo, or equipment from one location to another by some form of ground travel.
Impact Shielding Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized during events in which a Material Artifact reduces the damage caused to the shielded object by an impact with another object.
Material Copy of a Report
Report
A Material Copy of a Document that is designed to carry some specific Information Content Entity that conveys an account of some event, situation, or the result of some observation or inquiry.
Nozzle Throat
A Fluid Control Artifact that consists of the narrowest portion of a Nozzle that is designed to converge the flow of fluid in order to increase the Velocity of the flow.
Infrastructure Element
A Material Entity that bears an Infrastructure Role.
Deception Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in processes which misinform or mislead some other entity.
Steam Engine
An External Combustion Engine that is designed to use steam as its working fluid.
Refraction Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized by a Material Artifact participating in a refraction event in which the Material Artifact causes a change in direction of wave propagation due to a change in its transmission medium.
Portion of Gaseous Propellant
A Portion of Propellant that is stored in a gaseous state.
Heat Engine
An Engine that is designed to convert thermal energy into mechanical energy.
Material Copy of a Email Message
Email Message
A Material Copy of a Message that is transmitted to the recipient's Email Box.
Highway
A Road that is designed to enable Ground Vehicles to travel on routes that connect relatively major destinations.
Ground Moving Target Indication Artifact Function
A Moving Target Indication Artifact Function that inheres in Material Artifacts that are designed to identify and track entities moving on or near the ground.
Containing Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in a process in which one entity contains another.
Decoy
A Material Artifact that is designed to distract or conceal what an individual or group might be looking for.
Radiological Weapon
A Weapon that is designed to inflict harm, damage, or incapacity by means of releasing radioactive material.
Distance Measurement Artifact Function
A Measurement Artifact Function that is realized during events in which a Material Artifact is used to measure the spatial Distance to a specified object or class of objects.
Missile Launcher
A Projectile Launcher that is designed to launch one or more Precision-Guided Missiles.
Government Artifact Function
A Service Artifact Function that is realized in processes in which public policy is administered and the actions of its members are directed.
Power Transmission Artifact
A Material Artifact that is designed to transfer and regulate Power flow from a Power Source to an application point.
Cleaning Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in processes in which some Material Artifact is used to remove foreign objects from another object.
Battery Terminal
A Material Artifact that is designed to connect a load or charger to a single or multiple-cell Battery.
Anti-Bacterial Artifact Function
An Anti-Microbial Artifact Function that is realized in a process which causes harm to, or the death of, some bacterium.
Prosthetic Foot
A Prosthesis that is designed to replace a missing foot.
Voltage Regulating Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized by processes in which some Material Artifact is used to cause a change in the voltage magnitude between the sending and receiving end of an electrical component.
Attitude Control Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized by a Material Artifact participating in an attitude control process.
External Navigation Lighting System
A Lighting System that is designed to be attached to some Vehicle and to emit colored light in order to signal that Vehicle's position, heading, and status.
Mirror
An Optical Instrument that is designed to reflect light that has a wavelength within a given range and is incident on its relflecting surface such that the reflected light maintains most of the characteristics of the original light.
Turbofan Air-Breathing Jet Engine
An Air-Breathing Jet Engine that uses a Turbofan, which consists of a Turbine and a Fan.
Switch Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in a process of breaking an electric circuit by interrupting the current or diverting it from one conductor to another.
Telecommunication Instrument
A Communication Instrument that is designed for use by some Agent in some Act of Communication where the recipient of that communication is potentially a significant distance away from the Agent.
Fuel Tank
A Container that is designed to store a Portion of Fuel.
Mass Specification
A Quality Specification that prescribes the Amount of Mass that a Material Entity should have.
Nozzle Mouth
A Fluid Control Artifact that consists of the portion of a Nozzle at the end that is designed to be where the flow of fluid exits the Nozzle.
Convergent-Divergent Nozzle
CD Nozzle
de Laval Nozzle
A Nozzle that consists of a tube with an asymmetric hourglass shape that is designed to accelerate hot pressurized gas by converting the heat energy of the gas flow into kinetic energy as it passes through the Nozzle Throat to generate increased Exhaust Velocity of the gas as it exits the Nozzle.
By increasing the Exhaust Velocity of the gas, the Nozzle increases the Thrust generated.
Computer Network
Data Network
A Telecommunication Network that is designed to allow the exchange of data between two or more computers connected to the network.
Wire Receiver
A Radio Receiver that uses a Wire Antenna to intercept radio signals.
Material Copy of an Image
Image
An Information Bearing Artifact that is designed to carry an Information Content Entity that represents some entity owing to a visual isomorphism between the carrying artifact and the entity.
Material Copy of a System Clock
System Clock
A Material Copy of a Timekeeping Instrument that is part of a computer and is designed to issue a steady high-frequency signal that is used to synchronize all of the computer's internal components.
Constructed Tunnel
A Transportation Artifact that is designed to be substantially enclosed, have access constrained to portals, and to enable travel through surrounding soil, earth, or rock formation.
This class is not intended to include natural tunnels, such as caves.
Federal Highway Administration. Guidance on Structures Subject to the National Tunnel Inspection Standards (NTIS). United States Department of Transportation, 27 Oct. 2015
Terminal Board
A Material Artifact that is designed to join electrical terminations and create an electrical circuit by means of a block which connects individual wires without a splice or physically joining the ends.
Visual Prosthesis
Bionic Eye
An Artificial Eye that is designed to replace a missing eye, which performs the function of an eye.
Semi-automatic Pistol
A Hand Gun that has a single fixed firing chamber machined into the rear of the barrel and an ammunition magazine capable of holding multiple Cartridges such that the Hand Gun is designed to automatically reload each time it is fired and to fire a Bullet with each successive pull of the trigger until the stored ammunition is depleted.
Vehicle
A Material Artifact that is designed to facilitate the movement of material entities from one location to another by conveying them there.
Horn Antenna
Microwave Horn
A Radio Antenna that consists of a flaring metal waveguide shaped like a horn to direct radio waves in a beam and can be used on its own or as a feeder for larger antenna structures, such as Parabolic Antennas.
Prosthesis
A Medical Artifact that is designed to replace a missing body part.
Electric Battery
Battery
An Electrical Power Source that is designed to produce electric power by converting chemical energy to electrical energy.
Counterfeit Instrument
A Material Artifact that is designed to be a fake replica of some genuine Material Artifact.
Cryogenic Storage Dewar
A Container that is designed to store a Portion of Cryogenic Material (such as liquid helium or liquid oxygen) and which consists of, minimally, walls that are constructed from two or more layers that are separated by a high vacuum to provide thermal insulation between the interior and exterior of the dewar.
Polarizing Prism
A Prism designed to split a beam of light entering the Prism into components of varying polarization.
Vehicle Control System
A Control System that is designed to enable some Agent to control some Vehicle.
Parabolic Antenna
Dish Antenna
Parabolic Dish
A Radio Antenna that uses a parabolic reflector to direct or receive radio waves and has a very high gain.
Communication Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in a process in which meaningful signs are conveyed from one entity to another.
Submillimeter Wavelength Radio Telescope
Microwave Telescope
A Radio Telescope that is designed to aid in the observation of spatially distant Objects by means of collecting and focusing radio waves from the submillimeter waveband (i.e. microwaves) to form an enhanced image of the Object.
The submillimeter waveband is between the far-infrared and microwave wavebands and is typically taken to have a wavelength of between a few hundred micrometers and a millimeter.
http://kp12m.as.arizona.edu/docs/what_is_submillimeter.htm, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submillimetre_astronomy
Hydraulic Power Transfer Unit
A Material Artifact that is designed to transfer hydraulic power from one of an Aircraft's hydraulic systems to another in the event that a system has failed or been turned off.
Explosive Land Mine
Land Mine
An Explosive Mine that is designed to be concealed under or on the ground.
Transducer
A Material Artifact that is designed to convert one form of energy to another.
Resource
A Continuant that is owned by, in the possession of, or is otherwise controlled by an Agent such that it could be used by that Agent.
Resources are Resources for some Agent. If no instance of Agent existed, no instance of Resource would exist either. It is not a requirement that something be valuable in order for it to be a Resource. Thus the value of something can drastically change without altering whether that thing is a Resource.
This class is designed to group continuants according to a very broad criterion and is not intended to be used as a parent class for entities that can be more specifically represented under another class. Hence, Natural Resource may be an appropriate subtype but Money, Oil, and Gold Mine are not.
Ignition System
A Material Artifact that is designed to produce an Ignition process.
Material Copy of a Chart
Chart
A Material Copy of an Image that is designed to carry some Representational Information Content Entity that is prescribed by some canonical visual format.
Adapted from “Chart.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chart. Accessed 4 Aug. 2024.
Combustion Engine
A Heat Engine that is designed to convert thermal energy that is generated through a local Combustion process into mechanical energy.
Canal
A Water Transportation Artifact that is an artificial Hydrographic Feature designed to convey water or enable Watercraft to travel inland.
Bullet
A Portion of Ammunition that is designed to be projected by a Firearm, Sling, Slingshot, or Air Gun, but which does not (typically) contain explosives.
Material Copy of a Database
Database
An Information Bearing Artifact that is designed to carry some set of specific Information Content Entities and to be rapidly searchable and retrievable.
Component Role
A Role that inheres in an entity having a discrete structure in virtue of that entity being part of a system considered at a particular level of analysis.
ISO/IEC. 1998. Information Technology ― System and Software Integrity Levels Geneva, Switzerland: International Organization for Standardization (ISO)/International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). ISO/IEC. 15026:1998. : 3.1
Fungicide Artifact Function
An Anti-Microbial Artifact Function that is realized in a process which causes harm to, or the death of, some fungus or fungal spore.
Optical Focusing Artifact Function
An Optical Processing Artifact Function that is realized by a Material Artifact participating in a light focusing event in which the Material Artifact causes the light beam to converge on a target spatial point.
Lubrication System
A Material Artifact that is designed to contain, transfer, and regulate the flow of lubricant to multiple locations in a Material Artifact.
A Lubrication System typical consists of a reservoir, pump, heat exchanger, filter, regulator, valves, sensors, pipes, and hoses. In some cases it also includes the passageways and openings within the artifact it is designed to lubricate. For example, the oil holes in a bearing and crankshaft.
Imaging Instrument
A Material Artifact that is designed to bear an Imaging Artifact Function.
Video Camera
A Camera that is designed to form and digitally or physically record a continuous stream of subsequent images of an entity or scene such that the images can be played back in succession as a video.
Locomotive
A Rail Transport Vehicle that is designed to provide the motive power for a Train.
Signal Detection Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in the process of discerning between information-bearing patterns and random patterns, or noise, that distract from the information.
Hydraulic Motor
A Physically Powered Engine that converts hydraulic pressure and flow into torque and angular displacement.
Control System
A Material Artifact that is designed to manage, command, direct, or regulate the behavior of at least one other Material Artifact.
Radio Repeater
A Radio Transceiver that is designed to receive a radio signal, amplify it, and retransmit it (often on another frequency).
Turbine Steam Engine
Steam Turbine
A Steam Engine that is designed to extract thermal energy from pressurized steam and use it to do mechanical work on a rotating output shaft.
Direct Current Power Source
An Electrical Power Source that is designed to transfer electrical power in the form of direct current.
Chemical Reaction Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in a process that leads to the transformation of one set of chemical substances to another.
Catadioptric Optical Telescope
Catadioptric Telescope
An Optical Telescope that is designed to aid in the observation of spatially distant Objects by means of collecting and focusing visible light through the use of a combination of Lenses and Mirrors to form an enhanced image of the Object.
Fuel Ventilation System
A Fluid Control Artifact that is designed to allow air into the Fuel Tank to take the place of burned fuel.
Electrical Conduction Artifact Function
An Electrical Artifact Function that is realized by a Material Artifact being used to conduct an electric current.
Rail Transport Vehicle
A Ground Vehicle that is designed to convey cargo, passengers, or equipment by Railway.
Information Bearing Artifact
Information Carrying Artifact
A Material Artifact that carries an Information Content Entity and is designed to do so using a particular format or structure.
This class continues to use the word ‘bearing’ in its rdfs:label for legacy reasons. It should be understood that all instances of this class are carriers of information content entities and only, strictly speaking, a bearer of their concretizations.
Material Copy of a List
List
An Information Bearing Artifact that consists of one or more Information Bearing Artifacts that carry Information Content Entities and are the subjects of some Sequence Position Ordinality.
Prism
An Optical Instrument that is designed to refract light and which consists of a transparent material with flat polished surfaces where at least two of these surfaces have an angle between them.
Power Tool
A Tool that is designed to be actuated by a Power Source and mechanism other than or in addition to manual labor.
Compression Ignition Engine
An Internal Combustion Engine that is designed to operate by igniting a portion of Fuel and Oxidizer mixture using heat generated via compression of the mixture.
Reactant Artifact Function
A Chemical Reaction Artifact Function that is realized in a process in which a substance or compound is added to a system in order to bring about a chemical reaction and is consumed in the course of the reaction.
Submersible Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in processes of operating while submerged in water.
Radio Wave Conversion Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized by a Material Artifact being used to convert electric power into radio waves or radio waves into electric power.
Portion of Nuclear Fuel
A Portion of Material that is designed to be used in a nuclear fission process to produce energy.
Portion of Liquid Nitrogen
A Portion of Cryogenic Material that is composed (almost) entirely of liquid nitrogen.
Optical Communication Artifact Function
An Electromagnetic Communication Artifact Function that is realized in a process that conveys meaningful signs by means of visible light.
Telecommunication Network Line
A Communication Artifact that is designed to be the physical transmission medium that connects two or more Telecommunication Network Nodes within a Telecommunication Network to facilitate communication between the Nodes.
Pesticide Artifact Function
A Poison Artifact Function that is realized in a process which causes illness in, or the death of, a living thing that is detrimental to humans or human concerns.
Herbicide Artifact Function
A Pesticide Artifact Function that is realized in a process which causes harm to, or the death to, unwanted plants.
Portion of Fuel
A Portion of Material that is designed to release thermal energy when reacted with other substances.
Bicycle
A Ground Vehicle that consists of two wheels, one in front of the other, attached to a frame along with handlebars and pedals such that it is designed to receive its motive power from pedaling.
Explosive Artifact Function
A Damaging Artifact Function that is realized in a process in which the structural integrity of an entity is impaired because of the rapid increase in volume and release of energy in an extreme manner.
Solar Panel
An Electrical Power Source that consists in part of one or more photovoltaic (i.e. solar) cells that convert light energy (photons) directly into electricity by means of the photovoltaic effect.
Mounted Gun
A Firearm that is designed to be fired while mounted.
Heating System
An Environment Control System that is designed to heat the air or objects in a Site.
Light Machine Gun
A Long Gun that is designed to fire bullets in quick succession from an ammunition belt or magazine and to be employed by an individual soldier, with or without assistance, and typically weighing 9-22 lbs.
Artifact History
A History of a Material Artifact.
Ultra High Frequency Communication Instrument
A Radio Communication Instrument that is designed to participate in some process that has process part some Ultra High Frequency.
Improvised Explosive Device
An Explosive Weapon that is designed to be used in non-conventional military action.
Public Safety Artifact Function
A Service Artifact Function that is realized in processes of preventing and responding to events that could endanger the safety of the general public from significant danger, injury/harm, or damage, such as crimes or disasters (natural or man-made).
Rocket Pod
A Rocket Launcher that is designed to contain several Unguided Rockets held in individual tubes and to be used by Aircraft or Helicopters for close air support.
Optical Camera
A Camera that is designed to form and record an image generated from visible light.
Infrastructure System
Infrastructure
A Material Entity that is composed of elements bearing Infrastructure Roles and is by itself sufficient to provide a planned service or benefit to some organization that maintains its elements.
Material Copy of a Video
Video
An Information Bearing Artifact that is designed to carry some specific Information Content Entity in the form of a sequence of representations that are presented sufficiently rapidly to create the appearance of motion and continuity.
Brake Control System
A Vehicle Control System that is designed to control the process of braking with the aim of preventing rolling, skidding, and hydroplaning.
Identification Friend or Foe Transponder
IFF
A Radio Transponder that is designed to automatically transmit a predefined signal in response to receiving an appropriate interrogation signal such that the entity it is located on can be positively identified as friendly.
Religious Artifact Function
A Service Artifact Function that is realized in processes related to worship and prayer.
Wired Communication Reception Artifact Function
A Communication Reception Artifact Function that is realized during events in which a Material Artifact receives information transmitted from another Material Artifact, where the transmission of information occurs via a direct connection using an electrical conductor.
High Frequency Communication Instrument
A Radio Communication Instrument that is designed to participate in some process that has process part some High Frequency.
Information Medium Artifact
A Material Artifact that is designed to have some Information Bearing Artifact as part.
An empty notebook, when manufactured, is a medium but not yet a carrier of information content. However, a book, in the sense of a novel or collection of philosophical essays or poems, depends necessarily on it carrying some information content. Thus, there are no empty books. Likewise, there are no empty databases, only portions of digital storage that have not yet been configured to carry some information content according to a database software application.
Portion of Oxidizer
Portion of Oxidant
Portion of Oxidizing Agent
A Portion of Material that is disposed to steal electrons from other substances (i.e. to oxidize other substances) as a participant in a reduction-oxidation process.
oxygen, hydrogen peroxide, chlorine, sulfiric acid, potassium nitrate
Oxidizers are essential participants in many processes including combustion and rusting. Hence, a portion of oxidizer must always be present along with a portion of fuel in order for combustion to occur.
Radio Communication Relay Artifact Function
A Communication Relay Artifact Function that is realized during events in which a Material Artifact is used to first receive and then transmit information without the use of wires from one Material Artifact to another for the purpose of communiction.
Radio Communication Instrument
A Communication Instrument that is designed to enable communication between two or more entities via the use of radio waves.
Vehicle Track
An Object Track for a Vehicle during some motion.
Email Box
A Telecommunication Instrument that is designed to be the delivery destination of Email Messages that are addressed to the corresponding Email Address.
Telephone
Phone
A Telecommunication Instrument that is designed to provide point-to-point communication between agents by means of audio messages.
Emergency AC/DC Power Source
An Electrical Power Source that is designed to provide electrical power in an emergency situation by means of both alternating current and direct current.
Telecommunication Network Node
A Communication Artifact that consists of a connection point, redistribution point, or endpoint that is designed to be part of a Telecommunication Network and can be either active or passive.
Parts List
A Quality Specification that prescribes the Amount of some type of Material Artifact that are part of or located on another Material Artifact.
Train Car
Railroad Car
A Rail Transport Vehicle that consists of a single Vehicle that is not a Train but is designed to be connected to other Train Cars along with at least one Locomotive to form a Train.
Part Role
A Role that inheres in an entity in virtue of it being part of some other entity without being subject to further subdivision or disassembly without destruction of its designated use.
Nickel-metal Hydride Electric Battery
NiMH Battery
A Secondary Cell Electric Battery that has a metal-hydride anode and nickel oxide hydroxide cathode.
Computing Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized by a Material Artifact participating in a computation process.
Landline Telephone
A Telephone that is connected to a Telephone Network through a pair of wires.
Inhibiting Motion Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized by processes in which some Material Artifact is used to inhibit the motion of some object.
Financial Artifact Function
A Service Artifact Function that is realized in processes of managing money.
Sniper Rifle
A Rifle that is designed to be highly accurate for long-range precision tactical shooting.
Ocular Prosthesis
An Artificial Eye that is designed to replace a missing eye, but which does not function as an eye.
Thermal Imaging Artifact Function
An Imaging Artifact Function that is realized during events in which a Material Artifact is used to create a visual representation of an entity using radiation from the far infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum that the entity emits
X-ray Telescope
A Telescope that is designed to aid in the observation of spatially distant Objects by means of collecting and focusing X-rays to form an enhanced image of the Object.
Temperature Measurement Artifact Function
A Measurement Artifact Function that is realized during events in which a Material Artifact is used to measure the Temperature of a specified object or class of objects.
Electric Motor
Electric Engine
An Engine that is designed to convert electrical energy into mechanical energy.
Telecommunication Infrastructure
An Infrastructure System that is designed to support the use of Telecommunication Instruments to communicate.
Highway Interchange
A Road Junction that is designed to enable Ground Vehicles to exit one or more Highways and enter another Highway without directly crossing any other traffic stream.
Current Conversion Artifact Function
An Electrical Artifact Function that is realized by processes in which some Material Artifact is used to convert some electrical current.
Portion of Liquid Propellant
A Portion of Propellant that is stored in a liquid state.
Fuel Transfer System
A Fluid Control Artifact that is designed to facilitate the transfer of some Portion of Fuel from the Fuel Tank for use in some Engine.
Assault Rifle
A Rifle that is designed to have selective-fire functionality and use an intermediate Cartridge and a detachable magazine.
Portion of Waste Material
A Portion of Processed Material that serves no further use in terms of the initial user's own purposes of production, transformation, or consumption such that the Agent wants to dispose of it.
Thermal Insulation Artifact Function
A Thermal Control Artifact Function that is realized during events in which a Material Artifact prevents or reduces the transfer of heat between objects that are in thermal contact or in range of radiative influence.
Reflective Prism
A Prism designed to reflect light in order to flip, invert, rotate, deviate, or displace a beam of light entering the Prism.
Power Rectifying Artifact Function
A Current Conversion Artifact Function that is realized by processes in which some Material Artifact is used to convert alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC).
Electrical Power Production Artifact Function
An Electrical Artifact Function that is realized during events in which a Material Artifact is used to generate electrical power.
Material Artifact
A Material Entity that was designed by some Agent to realize a certain Function.
Ramjet Engine
Ramjet
An Air-Breathing Jet Engine that uses the forward motion of the Engine to compress incoming air (without the use of an axial compressor) and decelerate it to subsonic speeds before adding the fuel and constantly combusting the mixture then expelling the exhaust out through the rear Propelling Nozzle to generate Thrust.
Telecommunication Network
A Communication System that is designed to enable the transmission of information over significant distances between Telecommunication Endpoints via Telecommunication Network Nodes and Lines.
Spray Nozzle
A Nozzle that is designed to facilitate a conversion of the flow of a portion of liquid into a dynamic collection of drops dispersed in a portion of gas.
Material Copy of a Message
Message
An Information Bearing Artifact that is designed to carry some specific Information Content Entity that is relatively brief and to be transmitted from a sender to a recipient.
Cartridge
A Portion of Ammunition that is designed to package a Bullet, a propellant substance, and a primer within a case that is designed to fit within the firing chamber of a Firearm.
Turbojet Air-Breathing Jet Engine
An Air-Breathing Jet Engine that uses a Turbojet, which consists of a Turbine with a Propelling Nozzle.
Passenger Train Car
A Train Car that is designed to transport passengers.
Biological Weapon
A Weapon that is designed to inflict harm, incapacity, or death by means of releasing disease-producing agents—such as bacteria, viruses, or fungi.
Optical Telescope
A Telescope that is designed to aid in the observation of spatially distant Objects by means of collecting and focusing visible light to form an enhanced image of the Object.
Automobile
A Ground Motor Vehicle that is designed to transport a small number of passengers while traveling on four tired wheels.
Heating Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in a process in which the thermal energy of a system increases.
Controlled-Access Highway
Expressway
Freeway
Motorway
A Highway that is designed for high-speed vehicular traffic, with traffic flow and ingress/egress regulated.
Equipment Cooling System
A Cooling System that is designed to cool some piece of equipment.
Steering Control System
A Vehicle Control System that is designed to control the direction some Vehicle is traveling.
Portion of Gaseous Fuel
A Portion of Fuel that is stored in a gaseous state.
Spark Ignition Engine
An Internal Combustion Engine that is designed to operate by generating a spark to ignite a portion of Fuel and Oxidizer mixture.
Electric Generator
An Electrical Power Source that is designed to convert mechanical energy to electrical energy for use in an external circuit.
Trim Tab
A Control Surface that is designed to counteract hydro-, aerodynamic, or other forces in order to stabilize the Vehicle it is part of in the desired Attitude.
Unguided Rocket
Rocket
A Portion of Ammunition that is designed to be a self-propelled, but unguided, projectile that delivers some payload (explosive or other) over relatively long distances through the use of a Rocket Engine.
Train
Railroad Train
Railway Train
A Rail Transport Vehicle that consists of a series of connected Train Cars or Railcars.
Full Motion Video Camera
A Video Camera that is designed to capture and record images of sufficiently high quality and in rapid enough succession that the resulting video supports smooth playback.
Communication System
A Material Artifact that is designed to enable some Act of Communication by means of transmission systems, relay stations, tributary stations, and data terminal equipment, usually capable of interconnection and interoperation to form an integrated whole.
Nickel Cadmium Electric Battery
NiCad Battery
A Secondary Cell Electric Battery that has a cadmium anode and nickel oxide hydroxide cathode.
Equipment Mount
A Material Artifact that is designed to support a Material Artifact.
Aircraft
A Vehicle that is designed to convey passengers, cargo, or equipment from one location to another by air travel.
Nuclear Radiation Detection Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized during events in which a Material Artifact is used to detect the presence of nuclear radiation particles.
Artifact Model
A Prescriptive Information Content Entity that prescribes a common set of Functions and Qualities to inhere in a set of artifact instances.
Material Copy of a Notification Message
Notification Message
A Material Copy of a Message that is designed to carry an Information Content Entity that describes a scenario that has been determined to merit attention by the recipient.
Electrical Power Source
A Power Source that is designed to generate, control, and transfer power in the form of electrical energy.
Primary Cell Electric Battery
Primary Cell Battery
A Electric Battery that is designed for one-time use and not to be recharged.
Projectile Launcher
A Weapon that is designed to inflict damage or harm by means of launching a high-velocity projectile at a target.
Helical Antenna
A Wire Antenna that consists of a conducting wire wound in the form of a helix that is typically mounted over a ground plane with a feed line connected between the bottom of the helix and the ground plane.
Fuel System
A Material Artifact that is designed to pump, manage, and deliver some Portion of Fuel to the Propulsion System and Auxiliary Power Unit of some Vehicle.
Motorcycle
Motorbike
A Ground Motor Vehicle that is designed to transport a very small number of passengers (usually 1 or 2) while traveling on two or three tired wheels.
Material Copy of a Barcode
Barcode
An Information Bearing Artifact that is designed to carry one or more geometric shapes that concretize some Prescriptive Information Content Entity.
For information on types of barcodes, see: https://www.scandit.com/types-barcodes-choosing-right-barcode/
Laser
A Material Artifact that is designed to emit light coherently through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation.
Fluid Control Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in processes in which some Material Artifact is used to control the direction or flow of some fluid.
Payload Capacity
An Artifact Function that inheres in a Vehicle that is designed to transport Payload, and which is typically characterized by the maximum Weight, Mass, or Volume of Payload that the Vehicle can transport.
Heavy Machine Gun
A Mounted Gun that is designed to fire ammunition greater than .50 caliber or 12.7mm ammunition in quick succession from an ammunition belt, and which typically weighs more than 30lbs.
Patch Receiver
A Radio Receiver that uses a Patch Antenna to intercept radio signals.
Air-Breathing Combustion Engine
A Reaction Engine that functions by drawing a continuous stream of air into and through the Engine where it is compressed, mixed with a Portion of Fuel, ignited, and then expelled as exhaust gas.
Portion of Processed Material
A Material Artifact that is the output of an Act of Material Artifact Processing.
Reflection Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized by a Material Artifact participating in a reflection event in which the Material Artifact causes a change in a wavefront at an interface between the reflecting medium and the transmission medium such that the wavefront returns into the transmission medium.
Road Junction
A Land Transportation Artifact that is designed to enable Ground Vehicles to exit one Road and enter another.
Orientation Observation Artifact Function
Attitude Observation Artifact Function
An Observation Artifact Function that is realized during events in which a Material Artifact is used to collect information about the Orientation of a specified object or class of objects.
Electrical Power Storage Artifact Function
Capacitance
An Electrical Artifact Function that is realized during events in which a Material Artifact is used to store electrical power to be released at a later time.
Coin
A Portion of Cash that consists of a flat, portable, round pieces of metal designed to bear some specified Financial Value.
Cellular Telecommunication Network
Cellular Network
Mobile Telecommunication Network
A Wireless Telecommunication Network where the last link between the network and the end user is wireless and is distributed over service areas called cells.
Submachine Gun
An Long Gun that is designed to be have automatic-fire functionality, fire pistol-caliber ammunition that is magazine-fed, and which is usually smaller than other automatic firearms.
Common Stock
Stock that entitles its holder to voting on corporate decisions.
Bridge
A Land Transportation Artifact that is designed to span physical obstacles without closing the way underneath to enable Persons or Ground Vehicles to pass over the obstacles.
Measurement Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized during events in which a Material Artifact is used to measure one or more features of a specified object or class of objects.
Artifact Model Name
A Designative Information Content Entity that designates some Material Artifact Model.
Long Gun
A Firearm that is designed to have a longer barrel than a Hand Gun and to be fired while braced against the shoulder.
Secondary Cell Electric Battery
Rechargeable Battery
Secondary Cell Battery
An Electric Battery that is designed to be recharged.
Propelling Nozzle
Jet Nozzle
A Nozzle that is used to convert a propulsion Engine into a Jet Engine and functions by using its narrowest part, the throat, to increase Pressure within the Engine by constricting flow, usually until the flow chokes, then expanding the exhaust stream to, or near to, atmospheric pressure, while forming it into a high speed jet to propel the Vehicle.
Material Copy of a Form Document
Document Form
A Material Copy of a Document that has one or more Material Copy of a Document Field as parts in which to write or select prescribed content.
Scramjet Engine
Scramjet
Supersonic Combusting Ramjet
An Air-Breathing Jet Engine that uses the forward motion of the Engine to compress incoming air at supersonic speeds before adding the fuel and constantly combusting the mixture then expelling the exhaust out through the rear Propelling Nozzle to generate Thrust.
Poison Artifact Function
A Damaging Artifact Function that is realized in a process which causes illness in, or the death of, a living thing.
Precision-Guided Missile
A Portion of Ammunition that is designed to be a self-propelled and precision-guided projectile that delivers some payload (explosive or other) over relatively long distances.
Pressurization Control Artifact Function
A Ventilation Control Artifact Function that is realized by processes in which some Material Artifact is used to control the partial pressure of air in some space.
Vehicle Frame
A Material Artifact that is designed to be the main supporting structure of some Vehicle.
Portion of Liquid Fuel
A Portion of Fuel that is stored in a liquid state.
Beverage Antenna
A Wire Antenna that consists of a horizontal wire one-half to two wavelengths long that is suspended above the ground with one end attached to the receiver feedline and the other grounded and which is typically used in the low and medium frequency radio bands.
Adapted from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverage_antenna
Spacecraft
A Vehicle that is designed to convey passengers, cargo, or equipment from one location to another by Spaceflight.
Flywheel
A Material Artifact that is designed to store rotational energy such that it has a significant moment of inertia which enables it to resist changes in rotational speed.
Infrastructure Role
A Role that inheres in the bearer of a Disposition and has been assigned to an Infrastructure System such that the realization of that Disposition is sometimes part of the functioning of the Infrastructure System.
The disposition will typically be a function of an artifact, which is often designed to be part of some Infrastructure system. But not always. In some cases an entity may be repurposed to be an element of some Infrastructure. In those cases it is a capability of that entity that supports the functioning of the system.
Radio Receiver
A Radio Communication Instrument that is an electronic device that is designed to extract information from radio waves intercepted by a Radio Antenna by using electronic filters to separate the desired radio frequency signal from other signals, an electronic amplifier to increase the power of the signal, and demodulation to recover the desired information.
Electromagnetic Communication Artifact Function
A Communication Artifact Function that is realized in a process that conveys meaningful signs by means of electromagnetic radiation.
Portion of Ammunition
A Weapon that is designed to inflict harm, damage, or incapacity by being projected toward its target at a significant Velocity.
Portion of Paper
An Information Medium Artifact that is designed to bear some Information Content Entity by means of pressing together moist fibres of cellulose pulp derived from wood, rags, or grasses, and drying them into flexible sheets.
Damaging Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in a process in which the structural integrity of an entity is impaired.
Full Motion Video Imaging Artifact Function
An Imaging Artifact Function that inheres in Material Artifacts that are designed to produce video of entities that is of high enough quality to make the represented motion appear continuous to human viewers.
Material Copy of a Information Line
Information Line
An Information Bearing Artifact that consists of a single line or row of some larger Information Bearing Artifact of which it is a part.
a line in a computer file that bears a portion of code for some computer program
Hydraulic Power Source
A Power Source that is designed to generate, control, or transmit power by means of pressurized liquid.
Bond
A Financial Instrument that is designed to secure an Agent's debt for the holders of that debt.
Solvent Artifact Function
A Chemical Reaction Artifact Function that is realized in the dissolving of other substances (namely, solutes) without change in the former's chemical structure.
Counterfeit Legal Instrument
A Counterfeit Instrument that is designed to be a fake replica of some genuine Legal Instrument.
Reaction Mass
Working Mass
A Material Entity against which a Propulsion System operates in order to produce Acceleration.
Communication Relay Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized during events in which a Material Artifact is used to first receive and then transmit information from one Material Artifact to another for the purpose of communiction.
Portion of Gelatinous Propellant
A Portion of Propellant that is stored in a gelatinous state.
Rocket Launcher
A Projectile Launcher that is designed to launch one or more Unguided Rockets.
Electromagnetic Shielding Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in a process in which an electromagnetic field is blocked by barriers made of conductive or magnetic materials.
Railway Crossing
Level Crossing
A Land Transportation Artifact that is designed to enable Persons or Ground Vehicles to cross a Railway when traveling along a road or path that is perpendicular to and at the same elevation as the Railway at the point where they overlap.
Digital Storage Device
An Information Medium Artifact that is designed to bear some Information Content Entity by means of recording that information in digital (binary) format.
Triple Inertial Navigation System
Triple INS
An Inertial Navigation System that is designed to use three redundant computers to continuously calculate via dead reckoning the position, orientation, and velocity of a moving object without the need for external references, in such a way that eliminates the need for a navigator.
A Vehicle that is designed to travel through air or space and which obtains Thrust from a Rocket Engine.
Navigation System
A Material Artifact that is designed to enable an Agent or Material Artifact to determine the position or direction of some object, usually for the purpose of monitoring or controlling the movement of some Vehicle from one place to another.
Denture
A Prosthesis that is designed to replace missing teeth.
Radio Antenna
A Bidirectional Transducer that is designed to convert electric power into radio waves, and radio waves into electric power.
Railcar
A Rail Transport Vehicle that consists of a single self-propelled Vehicle that is not a Train, is designed to transport passengers, and which may also be designed to connect to other Railcars to form a Train.
In American-English, the term 'Railcar' is often used in a broader sense that is interchangeable with 'Railroad Car'.
Structural Support Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized by a Material Artifact providing physical support to another object.
Trail
A Land Transportation Artifact that is designed to enable transport through rough country, such as a forest or moor.
Optical Lens
Lens
An Optical Instrument that is designed to focus or disperse a beam of light entering the lens by means of refraction.
Retail Artifact Function
A Service Artifact Function that is realized in processes of selling goods or merchandise in small or individual lots for direct consumption by persons or organizations.
Lifting Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized by processes in which some Material Artifact is used to lift some object.
Periscope
An Optical Instrument that is designed to enable observation of an object that is located over, around, or through another object, obstacle, or condition that prevents direct line-of-sight observation from the observer's current position.
Medium Machine Gun
A Mounted Gun that is designed to fire full-power rifle Cartridges (less than .50 caliber or 12.7mm) in quick succession from an ammunition belt, and which typically weighs 22-30 lbs.
Signal Processing Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in the process of transferring or processing information contained in signals.
Physically Powered Engine
Physical Engine
An Engine that is designed to convert potential or kinetic energy into mechanical energy.
Solar Panel System
Photovoltaic System
Solar Array
An Electrical Power Source that consists in part of one or more Solar Panels, a power inverter, electrical wiring between the components, a mounting and support structure, and may also include a battery and/or a solar tracking system and is the bearer of functions realized in processes of deriving, transferring, and storing electrical energy derived from light energy.
Dish Receiver
A Radio Receiver that uses a Parabolic (or Dish) Antenna to intercept radio signals.
Material Copy of a Journal Article
Journal Article
A Material Copy of a Document that is designed to carry a specific brief composition on a specific topic as part of a Journal Issue.
Alkaline Electric Battery
A Primary Cell Electric Battery that has a Zinc anode and Manganese (IV) oxide cathode.
Rhombic Antenna
A Wire Antenna that consists of one to three parallel wires suspended above the ground by poles or towers at each vertex in a rhombic shape with each of the four sides being the same length (typically at least one wavelength or longer).
Crushing Artifact Function
A Damaging Artifact Function that is realized in a process in which the structural integrity of an entity is impaired because of significant pressure.
Neutralization Artifact Function
A Chemical Reaction Artifact Function that is realized in a process in which an acid and a base react quantitatively with each other.
Radio Communication Artifact Function
An Electromagnetic Communication Artifact Function that is realized in a process that conveys meaningful signs by means of radio waves.
Sensor Function
A Function that is realized in processes wherein an attribute of its bearer is a proxy for some aspect of its sensing environment.
A proxy in the sense used here is a stand-in used in place of something else, often because the original is unavailable or not directly accessible.
Subtypes of Sensor Function should be differentiated based on the type of modality they sense. Where a modality is a specific type of energy, phenomenon, or information input that the Sensor is designed to detect, measure, or otherwise respond to.
Actuator
A Transducer that is designed to convert some control signal into mechanical motion.
Material Copy of a Document Field
An Information Bearing Entity that is a part of some document into which carriers of prescribed information can be written or selected.
Telecommunication Endpoint
A Telecommunication Network Node that connects a Telecommunication Terminal to a Telecommunication Network.
A Telecommunication Terminal is an end user device such as a Telephone, fax machine, or Computer.
Artificial Eye
A Prosthesis that is designed to replace a missing eye.
Cabin Pressurization Control System
An Environment Control System that is designed to control the process in which conditioned air is pumped into the Cabin of some Aircraft or Spacecraft in order to create a safe and comfortable environment for passengers and crew flying at high altitudes.
Interior Lighting System
A Lighting System that is designed to emit light within the interior of some area.
Propulsion Artifact Function
A Motion Artifact Function that is realized in a process in which the bearer of the function creates force leading to an entity's movement.
Fuel Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in processes in which a Portion of Fuel is reacted with other substances in order to release chemical or nuclear energy to be used for heat or for work.
Revolver
A Hand Gun having a number of firing chambers in a revolving cylinder, where each chamber in the cylinder can be loaded with a single Cartridge.
Insecticide Artifact Function
A Pesticide Artifact Function that is realized in a process that causes harm to, or the death of, an insect.
Public Address System
PA System
A Communication System that is designed to allow a Person to speak to a large audience.
Howitzer
A Cannon that is designed to have a relatively short barrel and to use relatively small propellant charges to propel projectiles in relatively high trajectories with a steep angle of descent.
Wired Communication Relay Artifact Function
A Communication Relay Artifact Function that is realized during events in which a Material Artifact is used to first receive and then transmit information by means of wires from one Material Artifact to another for the purpose of communiction.
Nominal Speed Artifact Function
A Speed Artifact Function that is realized in some process in which the Artifact bearing the Artifact Function attains a speed that does not exceed some specified tolerance of that Material Artifact.
Stock
A Financial Instrument that entitles holders to an ownership interest (equity) in the specified Incorporated Organization.
Emulsifier Artifact Function
A Chemical Reaction Artifact Function that is realized in a process in which two or more liquids that are normally immiscible are mixed.
Hydraulic Valve
A Valve that is designed to regulate, direct, or control the flow of a liquid by opening, closing, or partially obstructing various passageways.
Round Shot
A Portion of Ammunition that is designed to be a solid projectile without explosive charge and to be fired from a cannon.
Bus
A Ground Motor Vehicle that is designed to transport a large number of people and to travel on six or more tired wheels.
Material Copy of a Document
Document
An Information Bearing Artifact that is designed to carry some specific Information Content Entity in a series of paragraphs of text or diagrams in the form of physical pieces of paper or an electronic word processor file.
Wetting Agent Artifact Function
A Surfactant Artifact Function that is realized in a process that reduces the water repellent tendency of a substance thereby allowing it to become wet.
Patch Antenna
Microstrip Patch Antenna
Rectangular Microstrip Antenna
A Radio Antenna that consists of a flat rectangular sheet (or patch) of metal mounted over a larger sheet of metal called a ground plane which is typically contained inside a plastic radome for protection and is small enough that it can be mounted on a flat surface.
Service Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in a process of providing intangible goods to consumers.
Position Observation Artifact Function
An Observation Artifact Function that is realized during events in which a Material Artifact is used to collect information about the position of a specified object or class of objects.
Dimension Specification
An Quality Specification that prescribes some Size Quality.
Observation Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized during events in which a Material Artifact is used to collect information about a specified object or class of objects.
Covering Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in a process in which an entity is covered.
Article of Clothing
A Material Artifact that is designed to cover some portion of a body.
Gimbal
An Equipment Mount that consists of a pivoted support that allows a Material Artifact to Rotate about one or more Axes.
Tank
An Armored Fighting Vehicle that is designed to carry heavy firepower, have a powerful Engine, and travel on one or more continuous tracks such that it is suitable for front-line combat and can provide operational maneuverability as well as tactical offensive and defensive capabilities.
Tank firepower is normally provided by a large-caliber main gun mounted in a rotating turret, which is supported by secondary machine guns. A tank's heavy armour and all-terrain mobility provide protection for both the tank and its crew, allowing it to perform all primary tasks of the armoured troops on the battlefield.
Radio Transceiver
A Radio Communication Instrument that is an electronic device composed of both a Radio Transmitter and a Radio Receiver that share common circuitry or a single housing.
Lead Acid Electric Battery
A Secondary Cell Electric Battery that has a lead anode and lead oxide cathode.
Bearing Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in processes in which the Material Artifact constrains relative motion to only the desired motion, and reduces friction between moving parts.
Land Transportation Artifact
A Transportation Artifact that facilitates the movement of Agents and Vehicles via land
Education Artifact Function
A Service Artifact Function that is realized in processes of transmiting accumulated knowledge skills and values from one generation to another.
Infantry Fighting Vehicle
An Armored Fighting Vehicle that is designed to carry infantry into battle and to provide fire support for them.
Infantry Fighting Vehicles (IFVs) are differentiated from Armored Personnel Carriers (APCs) because they are designed to give direct fire support to the dismounted infantry and so usually have significantly enhanced armament. IFVs also often have improved armour and firing ports (allowing the infantry to fire personal weapons while mounted).
Circuit Breaker
A Material Artifact that is designed to protect an electrical circuit from damage caused by excess current from an overload or short circuit.
Legal Instrument
A Material Artifact that is designed as a formally executed written document that can be formally attributed to its author, records and formally expresses a legally enforceable act, process, or contractual duty, obligation, or right, and therefore evidences that act, process, or agreement.
Thermal Control Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized by a Material Artifact increasing, decreasing, or maintaining the temperature of itself, a part of itself, or another object.
Speed Artifact Function
A Motion Artifact Function that is realized in some process in which its bearer has some speed.
Freight Train Car
Freight Car
A Train Car that is designed to transport cargo.
Healing Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in a process in which health is restored to an unbalanced, diseased, or damaged organism.
Maximum Speed Artifact Function
A Speed Artifact Function that is realized in some process in which the Material Artifact bearing the Artifact Function attains the highest speed at which that Material Artifact is designed to operate.
Powering Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized by processes in which some Material Artifact is used to supply power to some Material Artifact.
Motion Observation Artifact Function
An Observation Artifact Function that is realized during events in which a Material Artifact is used to collect information about the Motion of a specified object or class of objects.
Machine Bearing
A Material Artifact that is designed to constrain relative motion to only desired motion and reduces friction between moving parts.
Electromagnetic Induction Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that is realized by processes in which some Material Artifact that is used to produce electromotive force across an electrical conductor due to its dynamic interaction with a magnetic field.
Fertilizer Artifact Function
An Enhancing Artifact Function that is realized in processes of supplying soilds or plant tissues with one or more plant nutrients essential to growth.
Bow
A Projectile Launcher that is designed to launch Arrows.
Hospitality Artifact Function
A Service Artifact Function that is realized in processes of accommodation food and beverage meeting and events gaming entertainment and recreation tourism services and visitor information.
Medical Artifact
A Material Artifact that is designed for diagnosing, treating, or preventing disease, disability, or death.
Electronic Cash
A Portion of Cash that consists of Bytes.
Filter Function
An Artifact Function that is realized in a process where entities of a specific type or which have specified properties enter it or pass through it.
Although its basic function remains the same, a Filter can be used in 2 different ways: (1) to allow only the desired entities to pass through (e.g. removing dirt from engine oil); or (2) to allow everything except the desired entities to pass through (e.g. panning for gold).
Explosive Mine
Mine
Mine Weapon
An Explosive Weapon that is designed to be concealed and to detonate as its target passes near it.
Being (relatively) stationary is a common but not necessary feature of explosive mines.
Explosive Naval Mine
Naval Mine
Sea Mine
An Explosive Mine that is designed to be concealed on or under water.
Display Instrument
A Material Artifact that is designed to bear an Image Display Artifact Function.
Image Display Artifact Function
An Artifact Function that inheres in Material Artifacts that are designed to display an Image.
Sensor Role
A Role that inheres in an entity in virtue of it being used in a process wherein an attribute of its bearer acts as a proxy for some aspect of its sensing environment.
Sensor Platform Role
A Role that inheres in an entity in virtue of it being used to support or convey a Sensor during its deployment and functioning.
Sensing Process
A Process that realizes a Sensor Function or Sensor Role.