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This ontology is designed to represent processes, especially those performed by agents, that occur within multiple domains.
Event Ontology
Version 2.1
Process Profile
An occurrent that is an occurrent part of some process by virtue of the rate, or pattern, or amplitude of change in an attribute of one or more participants of said process.
On a somewhat higher level of complexity are what we shall call rate process profiles, which are the targets of selective abstraction focused not on determinate quality magnitudes plotted over time, but rather on certain ratios between these magnitudes and elapsed times. A speed process profile, for example, is represented by a graph plotting against time the ratio of distance covered per unit of time. Since rates may change, and since such changes, too, may have rates of change, we have to deal here with a hierarchy of process profile universals at successive levels; One important sub-family of rate process profiles is illustrated by the beat or frequency profiles of cyclical processes, illustrated by the 60 beats per minute beating process of John’s heart, or the 120 beats per minute drumming process involved in one of John’s performances in a rock band, and so on. Each such process includes what we shall call a beat process profile instance as part, a subtype of rate process profile in which the salient ratio is not distance covered but rather number of beat cycles per unit of time. Each beat process profile instance instantiates the determinable universal beat process profile. But it also instantiates multiple more specialized universals at lower levels of generality, selected from rate process profilebeat process profileregular beat process profile3 bpm beat process profile4 bpm beat process profileirregular beat process profileincreasing beat process profileand so on.In the case of a regular beat process profile, a rate can be assigned in the simplest possible fashion by dividing the number of cycles by the length of the temporal region occupied by the beating process profile as a whole. Irregular process profiles of this sort, for example as identified in the clinic, or in the readings on an aircraft instrument panel, are often of diagnostic significance.; The simplest type of process profiles are what we shall call ‘quality process profiles’, which are the process profiles which serve as the foci of the sort of selective abstraction that is involved when measurements are made of changes in single qualities, as illustrated, for example, by process profiles of mass, temperature, aortic pressure, and so on.
b process_profile_of c holds when b proper_occurrent_part_of c& there is some proper_occurrent_part d of c which has no parts in common with b & is mutually dependent on b& is such that b, c and d occupy the same temporal region (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [094-005])
Change
A Process in which some independent continuant endures and 1) one or more of the dependent entities it bears increase or decrease in intensity, 2) the entity begins to bear some dependent entity or 3) the entity ceases to bear some dependent entity.
Act
A Process in which at least one Agent plays a causative role.
Upper Midrange Frequency
A Sonic Frequency that is between 2 and 4 kHz.
Natural Process
A Process existing in or produced by nature; rather than by the intent of human beings.
Sound Frequency
A Frequency that is the rate of Oscillations per second of a Sound Wave.
Nominal Stasis
Nominal
A Stasis of Specifically Dependent Continuant in which some Independent Continuant bears a Quality or Realizable Entity that has a level of intensity or functionality that falls within the designed, expected, or acceptable range such that the Independent Continuant is of normal value, usefulness, or functionality.
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/nominal (Definition 6)
Gain of Generically Dependent Continuant
A Gain of Dependent Continuant wherein some Independent Continuant becomes the carrier of some Generically Dependent Continuant.
A Person forms a Plan, A Person is initiated into a Religion, A photgraphic image is produced.
Triangular Waveform
A Waveform that is characterized by a triangular shape due to the continuous linear zig-zag transitions between minimum and maximum Amplitudes of the Wave Cycle.
Act of Advising
An Act of Directive Communication performed by providing advice or counsel to another agent.
Mailing
Act of Mailing
An Act of Communication by Media in which information and tangible objects, usually written documents, are delivered to destinations around the world.
Decrease of Role
A Decrease of Realizable Entity in which some Independent Continuant has a decrease of some Role that it bears.
Soft X-ray Frequency
An X-Ray Frequency that is between 30 petahertz and 3 exahertz.
Act of Observation
A Planned Act of acquiring information from a source via the use of one or more senses.
Act of Construction
An Act of Material Artifact Processing wherein Material Artifacts are built on site as prescribed by some contract.
An Act of Construction typically involves the production of only one or a limited number of goods, such as in the construction of an airport or a community of condominiums.
Act of Location Change
An Act of Motion in which the location of some Object is changed by some Agent.
Act of Estimation
Act of Approximation
An Act of Measuring that involves the comparison of a measurement of a similar Entity or of a portion of the Entity being estimated to produce an approximated measurement of the target Entity.
measuring how much time a train will add to your commute by measuring how long it takes for 10 train cars to pass a given point and then combining this information with an estimate of how many train cars are in a typical train based on your past experience
measuring the amount of time required to do a task based on how long it took to do a similar task in the past
measuring the height of a building by counting the number of floors and multiplying it by the height of an average floor in an average building
measuring the property value of a house based on its square footage and the average cost per square foot of other houses in the area
Although the boundary between Act of Estimation and guessing is vague, estimation can be partially distinguished from guessing in that every Act of Estimation has as input some relevant information; whereas an act of guessing can occur sans information (or at least sans pertinent information). For example, if Mr. Green were asked how many blades of grass are in his lawn, he could simply choose a number (i.e. he could guess) or he could estimate the number by counting how many baldes of grass are in 1 square foot of his lawn, measuring the square footage of his lawn, and then multiplying these values to arrive at a number. Hence, many estimates may be loosely considered to be educated guesses.
In all cases, the Agent in an Act of Estimation either lacks complete information, lacks access to the relevant information, or chooses not to use the complete information (perhaps to save money or time) about the thing being estimated; instead, the Agent uses some or all of the relevant information that the Agent does have as a basis for arriving at the estimate.
Note that, while every Act of Measuring arguably involves some degree of estimation (for example, a measuring instrument rounding to the nearest ten-thousandth or an Agent reading an analog display), it would be a mistake to classify all Acts of Measuring as Acts of Estimation. This holds even for cases (e.g. census taking) in which sofisticated estimations are often more accurate than other means of measuring (e.g. enumeration).
Act of Social Movement
A Social Act composed of a series of performances, displays and campaigns directed at implementing, resisting or undoing a change in society.
Process Ending
A Process Boundary that occupies a Zero-Dimensional Temporal Region that is the ending instant of the One-Dimensional Temporal Region that the Process, of which the Process Boundary is a part, occupies.
Wave Process
A Natural Process that involves Oscillation accompanied by a transfer of energy that travels through a portion of matter or spatial region.
Stasis of Partially Mission Capable
A Stasis of Mission Capability during which the participating Continuant is capable of performing some but not all of its primary functions for the specified Mission.
End of Life Stasis
A Stasis of Artifact Operationality that holds during a Temporal Interval when the participating Material Artifact is no longer capable of realizing all of its designed primary Artifact Functions.
An End of Life Stasis (EoL) is distinguished from a Stasis of Partially Mission Capable or Stasis of Non-Mission Capable in that EoL is more inclusive such that the participating Material Artifact may be either Partially or Non-Mission Capable. Additionally, EoL applies only to Artifacts and is typically determined in relation to its original mission and designed primary functions. In contrast, an Artifact's level of Mission Capability depends on the requirements of the mission under consideration such that a given Artifact may simultaneously be Fully Mission Capable for mission1, Partially Mission Capable for mission2, and Non-Mission Capable for mission3.
Increase of Generically Dependent Continuant
An Increase of Dependent Continuant in which some Independent Continuant has an increase of some Generically Dependent Continuant that it bears.
Act of Military Force
A Planned Act of employing a Military Force to achieve some desired result.
Mechanical Process
A Process that is the realization of some Disposition of a Material Artifact
Stasis of Disposition
A Stasis of Realizable Entity in which some Independent Continuant bears some Disposition that remains unchanged during a Temporal Interval.
Act of Conducting Mass Media Interview
An Act of Mass Media Communication involving a conversation between a reporter and a person of public interest, used as a basis of a broadcast or publication.
Act of Expressive Communication
An Act of Communication in which an Agent expresses their attitudes or emotions towards some entity.
Examples: apologizing, condoling, congratulating, greeting, thanking, accepting (acknowledging an acknowledgment)
Derived (loosely) from: John Searle's Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language
Increase of Quality
An Increase of Specifically Dependent Continuant in which some Indpendent Continuant has an increase of some Quality that it bears.
Act of Directive Communication
An Act of Communication that is intended to cause the hearer to take a particular action.
Examples: advising, admonishing, asking, begging, dismissing, excusing, forbidding, instructing, ordering, permitting, requesting, requiring, suggesting, urging, warning
Stasis of Specifically Dependent Continuant
A Stasis in which some Independent Continuant bears some Specifically Dependent Continuant that remains unchanged during a Temporal Interval.
Act of Financial Deposit
An Act of Financial Instrument Use wherein a Financial Instrument is transferred by an Agent (the Depositor) to another Agent to create a liability to be repaid to the Depositor through an Act of Financial Withdrawal.
Maximum Power
A Power that is characterized by the maximum rate of Work, or Energy consumed, done in a given time period.
Act of Government
A Planned Act that is initiated or supported by some Geopolitical Entity and enforced by some Government Agent.
Act of Meeting
An Act of Association wherein two or more Persons assemble for some common purpose.
http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=meet (Sense Key: meet%2:41:00, get together%2:41:00)
Clockwise Rotational Motion
CW Rotational Motion
Clockwise Rotation
A Rotational Motion in which the direction of rotation is toward the right as seen relative to the designated side of the plane of rotation.
the axial rotation of the Earth as seen from above the South Pole
Instant Messaging
Act of IMing
Act of Instant Messaging
An Act of Communication by Media in which real-time direct text-based communication occurs between two or more people using personal computers or other devices, along with shared Instant Messaging Client Software conveyed over a network, such as the Internet.
Radio Frequency
An Electromagnetic Radiation Frequency of some Electromagnetic Wave that is between 3 kHz and 300 GHz.
Act of Reporting
An Act of Representative Communication performed by giving a detailed account or statement.
Near Infrared Light Frequency
An Infrared Light Frequency that is between 214 and 400 terahertz.
Criminal Act
A Planned Act committed in violation of rules or laws for which some governing authority (via mechanisms such as legal systems) can prescribe a conviction.
Wave Cycle
A Wave Process that consists of a portion of a Wave Process that begins at an arbitrary point of the Wave Process and ends at the next point when the pattern of the Wave Process begins to repeat.
Act of Interpersonal Relationship
An Act of Association between two or more Persons that may range from fleeting to enduring.
Very High Frequency
ITU Band Number 8
A Radio Frequency that is between 30 and 300 MHz.
The corresponding Wavelength range is 10–1 m
International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and IEEE 521-2002 - IEEE Standard Letter Designations for Radar-Frequency Bands
Thrust
A Force that is equal in magnitude to but in the opposite direction of an exerted Force and which is used to describe the forward Force of a Jet or Rocket Engine in reaction to the Acceleration of its Reaction Mass in the opposite direction.
More generally, Thrust is the propulsive Force of a Rocket.
Act of Thanking
An Act of Expressive Communication performed by expressing gratitude.
Act of Homicide
An Act of Violence which causes the unlawful killing of another person.
Process Beginning
A Process Boundary that occupies a Zero-Dimensional Temporal Region that is the starting instant of the One-Dimensional Temporal Region that the Process, of which the Process Boundary is a part, occupies.
Act of Pilgrimage
An Act of Travel to a location of importance to a person's beliefs and faith.
Act of Change of Residence
An Act of Location Change involving one or more Persons moving from one place of residence to another.
Act of Terrorist Training Instruction
An Act of Training Instruction performed by an Agent who realizes a capacity derived from the Agent's affiliation with some Terrorist Organization by imparting knowledge of the tactics, techniques, and/or strategies of the use of violence against civilians in order to attain goals that are political, religous, or ideological in nature to an Agent either directly or indirectly through some communication medium.
Act of Congratulating
An Act of Expressive Communication performed by expressing vicarious pleasure to a person on the occasion of their success or good fortune.
Sound Wavelength
A Wavelength that is the distance a Sound Wave traverses during one Wave Cycle.
Presence Frequency
A Sonic Frequency that is between 4 and 6 kHz.
Planned Act
Intentional Act
An Act in which at least one Agent plays a causative role and which is prescribed by some Prescriptive Information Content Entity held by at least one of the Agents.
Act of Training
A Planned Act in which knowledge, skills or values are imparted from one or more Agents to at least one other Agent.
Act of Vocational Training Acquisition
An Act of Training Acquisition performed by an Agent by acquiring skills required for a specific occupation in industry, agriculture or trade from an Agent or communication medium that realizes a capacity derived from its affiliation with a Vocational School, Technical School, Trade Organization, or Industry Educational Program Provider.
Act of Terrorist Training Acquisition
An Act of Training Acquisition performed by an Agent by acquiring knowledge of the tactics, techniques, and/or strategies of the use of violence against civilians in order to attain goals that are political, religous, or ideological in nature from an Agent or communication medium that realizes a capacity derived from its affiliation with a Terrorist Organization.
Act of Oath Taking
An Act of Commissive Communication performed by stating or promising, usually calling upon something or someone that the oath maker considers sacred.
Stasis of Realizable Entity
A Stasis of Specifically Dependent Continuant in which some Independent Continuant bears some Realizable Entity that remains unchanged during a Temporal Interval.
Loss of Realizable Entity
A Loss of Specifically Dependent Continuant in which some Independent Continuant ceases to be the bearer of some Realizable Entity.
Muzzle Blast
A Sound Wave Process that is caused by a projectile being pushed from the barrel of a firearm by an explosive charge.
Gamma Ray Frequency
An Electromagnetic Radiation Frequency of some Electromagnetic Wave that is above 30 exahertz.
Currently gamma radiation is distinguished from x-rays by their source--either inside or outside of the nucleus--rather than by frequency, energy, and wavelength. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_ray#Naming_conventions_and_overlap_in_terminology
Election
Act of Political Election
A Social Act by which a population chooses an individual to hold public office.
Combustion
Burning Process
Combustion Process
A Natural Process in which a Portion of Fuel or other Material Entity is burned.
Momentum
A Process Profile of an object in Motion that is the product of its Mass and Velocity with respect to a frame of reference.
The SI unit of measure for Momentum is Newton seconds (N s).
Stasis of Partially Mission Capable Maintenance
A Stasis of Partially Mission Capable during which the participating Continuant is not capable of performing some of its primary functions for the specified Mission due to participating in an Act Of Maintenance.
Decrease of Specifically Dependent Continuant
A Decrease of Dependent Continuant in which some Independent Continuant has a decrease in some Specifically Dependent Continuant that it bears.
Act of Decoy Use
An Act of Artifact Employment in which some Agent uses some Decoy.
Angular Velocity
Rotational Velocity
A Velocity that is characterized by both the angular Speed of an object and the Axis about which the object is Rotating.
Sound Pressure
Acoustic Pressure
A Pressure that is caused by a Sound Wave and is a local deviation from the ambient Pressure.
Act of Military Service
An Act of Employment by an Organization wherein a Person serves as a member of a Military Force, whether voluntarily or by conscription.
Propulsion Process
A Natural Process in which one or more Forces are generated and applied to a participating Object such that the Object is set in Motion or has the direction or magnitude of its Motion altered.
a twin-engine turboprop plane rotating both of its propellers against a portion of atmosphere to propel the plane forward
an apple falling to the ground under the power of Earth's gravitational force
burning a portion of fuel to produce exhaust that is ejected through a jet nozzle to propel a rocket and its payload
heat from a fire causing ashes to rise into the sky
launching a water balloon using a sling shot
turning a paddle wheel against a portion of water to propel the paddle boat forward
In each case, a Propulsion Process minimally involves the Object being propelled, a Reaction Mass (e.g. a portion of water, atmosphere, exhaust, etc.), and the Force(s) acting between these two entities.
Wavelength
A Wave Process Profile that is the distance the Wave Process traverses during one Wave Cycle.
Assuming a non-dispersive media, the Wavelength will be the inverse of the Frequency.
Act of Reconnaissance
An Act of Intelligence Gathering used to determine an Agent's disposition and intention; the composition and capabilities of Equipment and Facilities, and the surrounding landforms and weather conditions.
Act of Funding
An Act of Financial Instrument Use in which an Agent (the Funder) provides some Financial Instrument to another Agent (the recipient of the funds) as a resource pool that is earmarked by the Funder for a future transaction.
Stasis of Generically Dependent Continuant
A Stasis in which some Independent Continuant bears some Generically Dependent Continuant that remains unchanged during a Temporal Interval.
Act of Measuring
A Planned Act that involves determining the extent, dimensions, quanity, or quality of an Entity relative to some standard.
putting an object on a scale to measure its weight in kilograms
rating Hollywood movies on a 1 to 5 star scale
using a tape measure to determine the height and width of a doorway in inches
Act of Commanding
An Act of Directive Communication through which an Agent exercises authoritative control or power over another Agent's actions.
http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=commanding (Edited 08-22-2016)
Act of Testifying
An Act of Representative Communication performed by stating one's personal knowledge or belief.
Act of Publishing Mass Media Article
An Act of Mass Media Communication involving the preparation and public issuance of a non-fictional essay, especially one included with others in a newspaper, magazine, journal, etc.
Act of Motion
A Planned Act by which an Agent causes the position or location of some Object to change.
Wounded Stasis
Wounded
A Damaged Stasis in which a Person or other organism is the bearer of a Quality or Realizable Entity that has suffered impairment (i.e., a decrease or loss) due to an injuring event.
Increase of Function
An Increase of Disposition in which some Independent Continuant has an increase of some Function that it bears.
Act of Information Processing
A Planned Act in which one or more input Information Content Entities are received, manipulated, transferred, or stored by an Agent.
Act of Military Training Instruction
An Act of Training Instruction performed by an Agent who realizes a capacity derived from the Agent's affiliation with some Military Organization by imparting knowledge of the tactics, techniques, and/or strategies of Military Operations to an Agent either directly or indirectly through some communication medium.
Rotational Motion
Rotation
A Motion Process in which an Object moves in a Circular or Elliptical Path around an Axis of Rotation.
Act of Condoling
An Act of Expressive Communication performed by expressing sympathy or sorrow.
Act of Prediction
A Planned Act that involves the generation of a Predictive Information Content entity that is intended to describe an uncertain possible future event, value, entity, or attribute of an entity.
a chess master predicting the next 8 moves his opponent will make
predicting that a particular stock will double in value over the next fiscal quarter
using sample exit polls data to predict the winners of an election
An Act of Prediction may involve the use of some or no relevant information. An Act of Prediction that utilizes relevant information may also be (or at least involve) an Act of Estimation. Hence, these two classes are not disjoint. Furthermore, neither class subsumes the other since estimates can be made about existing entities and not all predictions produce measurements (e.g. predicting that it will rain tomorrow).
Predictions can only be made about things that are not yet the case (i.e. future things) and are further restricted to being about things that do not have a probability of either 1 (necessary) or 0 (impossible). For example, assuming that no organism is immortal, one cannot predict of a given organism that it will eventually die; however, one may predict uncertain things about the organism's eventual death, such as its precise cause or time.
Act of Representative Communication
An Act of Communication that commits a speaker to the truth of the expressed proposition.
Examples: affirming, alleging, announcing, answering, attributing, claiming, classifying, concurring, confirming, conjecturing, denying, disagreeing, disclosing, disputing, identifying, informing, insisting, predicting, ranking, reporting, stating, stipulating
Pressure
A Force that is applied perpendicular to the surface of an Object per unit area over which that Force is distributed.
Rectilinear Motion
Linear Motion
A Translational Motion process in which an Object moves along a straight path.
Webcast
Act of Webcasting
An Act of Communciation by Media transmitted to an audience over the Internet using streaming media technology to distribute a single content source that may be distributed live or on demand.
Essentially, webcasting is “broadcasting” over the Internet.
Act of Buying
An Act of Purchasing wherein a Financial Instrument is used by an Agent (the Buyer) to acquire ownership of a good from another Agent (the Seller).
Tremendously High Frequency
ITU Band Number 12
Submillimeter Band Frequency
Terahertz Radiation Frequency
An Electromagnetic Radiation Frequency of some Electromagnetic Wave that is between 300 GHz and 3 THz.
The corresponding Wavelength range is 1–0.1 mm
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Gain of Specifically Dependent Continuant
A Gain of Dependent Continuant in which some Independent Continuant becomes the bearer of some Specifically Dependent Continuant.
A Person becomes pregnant (gain of quality), A person becomes forgetful (gain of disposition), A vehicle becomes amphibious (gain of function), A Person becomes a Database Administrator (gain of role).
Extremely Low Frequency
ITU Band Number 1
A Radio Frequency that is between 3 and 30 Hz.
The corresponding Wavelength range is 100,000–10,000 km
Fundamental Frequency
A Sound Frequency that is the lowest Frequency of a Sound Wave.
Act of Communication
A Planned Act in which some Information Content Entity is transferred from some Agent to Another.
Square Waveform
A Waveform that is characterized by a square shape due to the near-instantaneous transitions between minimum and maximum Amplitudes of the Wave Cycle.
Act of Publishing Mass Media Press Release
An Act of Mass Media Communication involving the preparation and public issuance of an official statement issued to one or more members of the media for the purpose of announcing newsworthy information.
Biographical Life
An Act composed of the Life Events that occur during the course of existence of an Agent (i.e. Person or Organization).
Stable Orientation
A Stasis of Quality that holds during a Temporal Interval when an object maintains the same Spatial Orientation.
Act of Association
A Social Act wherein an Agent unites with some other Agent in a Planned Act, enterprise or business.
Act of Official Documentation
An Act of Declarative Communication in which an Agent records some information for official use by another Agent.
Act of Remuneration
An Act of Purchasing wherein a Financial Instrument is used by an Agent (the Employer) to compensate another Agent (the Employee) for the services they perform for the Employer.
Comment: Remuneration normally consists of salary or hourly wages, but also applies to commission, stock options, fringe benefits, etc.
Act of Ceremony
A Social Act of ritual significance, performed on a special occasion.
Gain of Function
A Gain of Disposition in which some Independent Continuant becomes the bearer of some Function.
This class should be used to demarcate the start of the temporal interval (through the BFO 'occupies temporal region' property) that the Entity bears the Function.
Act of Educational Training Instruction
An Act of Training Instruction performed by an Agent who realizes a capacity derived from the Agent's affiliation with some Educational Organization by imparting knowledge of a curriculum to an Agent either directly or indirectly through some communication medium.
X-ray Frequency
An Electromagnetic Radiation Frequency of some Electromagnetic Wave that is between 30 petahertz and 30 exahertz.
Email Messaging
Act of Emailing
An Act of Communication by Media in which text-based communication occurs between two or more people using personal computers or other devices using some Email Client Software conveyed over the Internet.
Act of Financial Withdrawal
An Act of Financial Instrument Use wherein a Financial Instrument is transferred by an Agent to another Agent (the Depositor) from an account created by an earlier Act of Financial Deposit performed by the Depositor.
Power
A Process Profile that is characterized by the rate of Work, or Energy consumed, done in a given time period.
Near Ultraviolet Light Frequency
An Ultraviolet Light Frequency that is between 750 terahertz and 3 petahertz.
Act of Planning
A Planned Act that involves making a Plan to achieve some specified Objective.
Act of Tool Use
An Act of Artifact Employment in which some Agent uses some Tool.
Transverse Wave Profile
Transverse Wave
A Wave Process Profile in which the displacement of participating particles is perpendicular to the direction of the Wave Process' propogation.
Act of Vehicle Use
An Act of Artifact Employment in which some Agent uses some Vehicle.
Act of Communication by Media
An Act of Communication in which some Material Artifact is used to transfer an Information Bearing Entity from sender(s) to receiver(s).
Extremely High Frequency
ITU Band Number 11
Millimeter Band Frequency
A Microwave Frequency that is between 30 and 300 GHz.
The corresponding Wavelength range is 10–1 mm
Act of Departure
An Act of Location Change that consists of the participating entity leaving its starting location such that the larger Act of Location Change is initiated.
Act of Assassination
An Act of Murder of a prominent person.
Loudness
A Sound Process Profile that is characterized by the amplitude and total energy of translated sound waves, typically on a continuum from soft to loud.
Sonic Frequency
Audible Frequency
A Sound Frequency that is between 20 Hz and 20 kHz.
Sound waves with frequencies in this range are typically audible to humans.
Decrease of Quality
A Decrease of Specifically Dependent Continuant in which some Independent Continuant has a decrease of some Quality that it bears.
Weight Loss, Decreasing Temperature, decreasing color intensity, loss of structural integrity
Loss of Generically Dependent Continuant
A Loss of Dependent Continuant in which some Independent Continuant ceases to be the carrier of some Generically Dependent Continuant.
Decrease of Disposition
A Decrease of Realizable Entity in which some Independent Continuant has a decrease of some Disposition it bears.
Target
A Material Entity that is the object of an Act of Targeting.
Although people speak of targeting a process, say, a parade, what in fact are being targeted are the material participants of that process. The disruption or ceasing of the process is the objective of some plan, but not technically a target. Only material things can be targeted for action. Even if some dependent entity is described as being the target, the material thing for which that dependent entity depends is the object of a targeting process.
Unplanned Act
Unintentional Act
An Act in which at least one Agent plays a causative role and which is not prescribed by some Objective held by any of the Agents.
Gain of Dependent Continuant
A Change in which an Independent Continuant becomes the bearer or carrier of some Dependent Continuant.
Enhanced Stasis
Enhanced
A Stasis of Specifically Dependent Continuant in which some Independent Continuant bears a Quality or Realizable Entity that has undergone improvement (i.e., an increase or gain) due to a previous action or event such that the Independent Continuant is now of greater value, usefulness, or functionality.
Stasis of Non-Mission Capable
A Stasis of Mission Capability during which the participating Continuant is not capable of performing any of its primary functions for the specified Mission.
Visible Light Reflection Process
A Wave Process in which an Electromagnetic Wave with a Visible Light Frequency is reflected off a portion of matter.
Act of Artifact Employment
A Planned Act of using a Material Artifact.
Force
A Process Profile that is the rate of change of an object's Momentum, is the product of an object's Mass and Acceleration with respect to an inertial frame of reference, and is measured in units of Newtons (N).
Sound Production
Sound Production Process
A Wave Production Process that produces a Sound Wave.
Act of Religious Training Acquisition
An Act of Training Acquisition performed by an Agent by acquiring knowledge of the tenets and/or practices of a religion from an Agent or communication medium that realizes a capacity derived from its affiliation with a Religious Organization.
Sine Waveform
Sinusoidal Waveform
A Waveform that is characterized by a smooth curved shape due to the continuous non-linear transitions between minimum and maximum Amplitudes of the Wave Cycle.
Act of Position Change
An Act of Motion in which the position (i.e. the orientation, alignment, or arrangement) of some Object or of one or more of an Object's parts is changed by some Agent.
swivelling your office chair to face the window
An Act of Position Change does not entail a change of location.
Sawtooth Waveform
A Waveform that is characterized by a sawtooth shape due to the continuous linear transition from minimum to maximum Amplitudes followed by a near-instantaneous transition from the maximum to minimum Amplitudes of the Wave Cycle.
Act of Mass Media Communication
An Act of Communication intended to reach a large audience using a medium such as the internet, television, radio, newspaper, and magazine.
Ignition Process
Ignition
A Natural Process that initiates a Combustion process.
Act of Cargo Transportation
An Act of Location Change wherein some Payload is moved from one location to another.
Gain of Disposition
A Gain of Realizable Entity in which some Independent Continuant becomes the bearer of some Disposition.
This class should be used to demarcate the start of the temporal interval (through the BFO 'occupies temporal region' property) that the Entity bears the Disposition.
Ultraviolet Light Frequency
An Electromagnetic Radiation Frequency of some Electromagnetic Wave that is between 750 terahertz and 30 petahertz.
Increase of Realizable Entity
An Increase of Specifically Dependent Continuant in which some Independent Continuant has an increase of some Realizable Entity that it bears.
Act of Weapon Use
An Act of Artifact Employment in which some Agent uses some Weapon.
Loss of Role
A Loss of Realizable Entity in which some Independent Continuant ceases to be the bearer of some Role.
Act of Encounter
An Act of Association wherein two or more Persons meet in a casual or unplanned manner.
http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=encounter (Sense Key: Encounter%2:38:00)
Inverse Sawtooth Waveform
A Waveform that is characterized by a sawtooth shape due to the continuous linear transition from maximum to minimum Amplitudes followed by a near-instantaneous transition from the minimum to maximum Amplitudes of the Wave Cycle.
Stasis of Fully Mission Capable
A Stasis of Mission Capability during which the participating Continuant is capable of performing all of its primary functions for the specified Mission.
Act of Appraisal
An Act of Measuring that involves evaluating, assessing, estimating, or judging the nature, value, importance, condition, or quality of something or someone.
a food critic rating the quality of a restaurant's ambiance, service, and food
a mechanic assessing whether a damaged vehicle is repairable
an insurance agent appraising the financial value of a building
In the context of an Act of Appraisal, the terms 'value', 'condition', and 'quality' do not have the same meanings as their counterparts that are defined in the Common Core Ontologies. For example, a knife may be appraised to be of high quality if it is sharp and sturdy or to be of inferior quality if it is dull or fragile.
Note that, while most if not all Acts of Appraisal involve some estimating and many Acts of Estimation involve some appraising (i.e. these classes are not disjoint), neither class subsumes the other. For example, some Acts of Appraisal (e.g. a tax assessor appraising the value of a building) impart a normative element to the measured value while others (e.g. a gustatory appraisal that fresh green beans taste better than canned green beans) involve complete information. Furthermore, many Acts of Estimation (e.g. estimating the height of a tree) are concerned solely with determining a numerical value (as opposed to the nature, value, importance, condition, or quality).
Gain of Realizable Entity
A Gain of Specifically Dependent Continuant in which some Independent Continuant becomes the bearer of some Realizable Entity.
An informant becomes unreliable (disposition), A person begins to speak French (function), a person becomes a welder (role).
Low Frequency
ITU Band Number 5
A Radio Frequency that is between 30 and 300 kHz.
The corresponding Wavelength range is 10–1 km
Oscillation Process
Oscillation
A Change in which the dependent entity alternates between two or more stases.
Oscillation is often thought of in the sense of motion, e.g., a swinging clock pendulum. However, the repetitive variation in location around a central point is technically a process of vibration, sometimes referred to as mechanical oscillation. Use the term Vibration Motion for those cases.
Act of Terrorism
An Act of Violence which creates fear and which is prescribed by religious, political or ideological objectives, and which deliberately target or disregard the safety of civilians and are committed by members of non-government organizations.
Effect
Consequence
A Process that follows and is caused by some previous Process.
Super Low Frequency
ITU Band Number 2
A Radio Frequency that is between 30 and 300 Hz.
The corresponding Wavelength range is 10,000–1,000 km
Sound Wave Process
A Mechanical Wave Process of Pressure and displacement that is parallel to the propogation direction of the Wave Process through a medium.
Act of Inhabitancy
A Planned Act in which a Person lives at a Site for a period of time that may be as short as 1 day/night or as long as the Person's entire life.
Act of Contract Formation
An Act of Promising having a lawful object entered into voluntarily by two or more agents with legal capacity, each of whom intends to create one or more legal obligations between them.
Act of Training Acquisition
An Act of Training performed by an Agent by acquiring knowledge from another Agent.
Acceleration
A Process Profile that is the rate of change of the Velocity of an object.
Wedding
Act of Wedding Ceremony
An Act of Ceremony in which two Persons are united in Marriage or a similar institution.
Decrease of Dependent Continuant
A Change in which some Independent Continuant has a decrease in the level of some Dependent Continuant that it bears.
Microwave Frequency
A Radio Frequency that is between 300 MHz and 300 GHz.
The corresponding Wavelength range is 1,000–1 mm
Act of Sojourn
An Act of Inhabitancy in which a Person lives in a dwelling temporarily, often during stages of an Act of Travel.
Act of Targeting
A Planned Act wherein some Agent maintains one or more entities as the objects of potential action given some operational requirement.
Act of Social Group Membership
An Act of Association wherein a Person belongs to some Social Group.
Text Messaging
Act of Text Messaging
Act of Texting
An Act of Communication by Media involving the exchange of brief written messages between fixed-line phone or mobile phone and fixed or portable devices over a network.
Wave Process Profile
A Process Profile of a Wave Process.
This is a defined class used to group process profiles of Wave Processes. Note that not every relevant process profile can be asserted as a subtype, however, because they (e.g. Frequency and Amplitude) are applicable to other processes as well (e.g. Oscillation Process).
Ultra Low Frequency
ITU Band Number 3
A Radio Frequency that is between 300 Hz and 3 kHz.
The corresponding Wavelength range is 1,000–100 km
Electromagnetic Radiation Frequency
A Frequency that is characterized by the rate of Oscillations per second of an Electromagnetic Wave.
Divisions between EM radiation frequencies are fiat and sources vary on where to draw boundaries.
Surface Wave Profile
Surface Wave
A Wave Process Profile in which the Wave Process propogates along the surface of a medium and which involves both transverse and longitudinal wave profiles such that the motion of the displacement of participating particles is circular or elliptical.
Velocity
A Process Profile of an object's Motion that is characterized by its Speed and direction with respect to a frame of reference.
Wave Production
Wave Production Process
A Natural Process in which a Wave Process is generated.
Act of Requesting
An Act of Directive Communication performed by asking for something.
Impulsive Force
Imp
Impulse
A Process Profile that is the integral of a Force that is applied to a portion of matter over a period of time.
An Impulse changes the Momentum (and potentially also the direction of Motion) of the object it is applied to and is typically measured in Newton meters.
Curvilinear Motion
Curved Motion
A Translational Motion process in which an Object moves along a curved path.
Stasis of Non-Mission Capable Maintenance
A Stasis of Non-Mission Capable during which the participating Continuant is not capable of performing its primary functions for the specified Mission due to participating in an Act Of Maintenance.
Increase of Role
An Increase of Realizable Entity in which some Independent Continuant has an increase of some Role that it bears.
Translational Motion
A Motion Process in which the participating Object changes its position from one portion of space to another.
Electromagnetic Pulse
EMP
Transient Electromagnetic Disturbance
An Electromagnetic Wave Process that consists of a short high-energy burst of electromagnetic energy.
Stasis
A Process in which one or more Independent Continuants endure in an unchanging condition.
Stasis of Function
A Stasis of Realizable Entity in which some Independent Continuant bears some Function that remains unchanged during a Temporal Interval.
Act of Promising
An Act of Commissive Communication performed by declaring that the promising agent will do, or refrain from doing, the specified action.
Very Low Frequency
ITU Band Number 4
A Radio Frequency that is between 3 and 30 kHz.
The corresponding Wavelength range is 100–10 km
Stasis of Role
A Stasis of Realizable Entity in which some Independent Continuant bears some Role that remains unchanged during a Temporal Interval.
Speed
A Process Profile that is characterized by the magnitude of an object's motion with respect to a frame of reference during some time period.
An object's speed is the scalar absolute value of it's Velocity.
Mid Infrared Light Frequency
An Infrared Light Frequency that is between 20 and 214 terahertz.
Act of Financial Instrument Use
An Act of Artifact Employment in which some Agent uses some Financial Instrument.
Act of Donating
An Act of Financial Instrument Use wherein a Financial Instrument is tranfered by an Agent (the Donor) to another Agent (the Recipient) without return consideration.
Sub-Bass Frequency
A Sonic Frequency that is between 20 and 60 Hz.
Active Stasis
A Stasis of Artifact Operationality that holds during a Temporal Interval when a Material Artifact is realizing one or more of its designed Artifact Functions (especially one of its primary functions).
Stasis of Quality
A Stasis of Specifically Dependent Continuant in which some Independent Continuant bears some Quality that remains unchanged during a Temporal Interval.
Decrease of Realizable Entity
A Decrease of Specifically Dependent Continuant in which some Independent Continuant has a decrease of some Realizable Entity that it bears.
Effect of Location Change
An Effect caused by some Act of Location Change and which results in an Object being located in a different place.
Television Broadcast
Act of Television Broadcasting
An Act of Communciation by Media that is transmitted to an audience through a television network.
Sound Process Profile
Sound Quality
A Process Profile that is part of a sound reception process and is characterized by properties of incoming sound waves as they are translated by some sensory system.
Act of Confessing
An Act of Representative Communication in which a person makes an admission of misdeeds or faults.
Loss of Specifically Dependent Continuant
A Loss of Dependent Continuant in which some Independent Continuant ceases to be the bearer of some Specifically Dependent Continuant.
Radio Broadcast
Act of Radio Broadcasting
An Act of Communciation by Media that is transmitted to an audience through a radio network.
Act of Personal Communication
An Act of Communication having a small audience.
Loss of Dependent Continuant
A Change in which some Independent Continuant ceases to be the bearer or carrier of some Dependent Continuant.
Act of Religious Group Affiliation
An Act of Association wherein some Person belongs to some Religious Demonination or sub-Denomination.
Act of Inviting
An Act of Commissive Communication performed by requesting the presence or participation of the audience, and which may include offering an incentive or inducement.
Act of Loaning
An Act of Financial Instrument Use wherein a Financial Instrument is given by an Agent (the Creditor) to another Agent (the Debtor) in order to receive Repayments from the Debtor which are of greater Financial Value.
Visible Observation
An Act of Observation that involves visual perception.
Act of Travel
An Act of Location Change wherein one or more Persons move between relatively distant geographical locations for any purpose and any duration, with or without any means of transport.
Married
Married Stasis
A Stasis of Generically Dependent Continuant that consists of a socially, culturally, or ritually recognized union or legal contract between spouses that establishes rights and obligations between them, between them and their children, and between them and their in-laws.
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Act of Facility Use
An Act of Artifact Employment in which an Agent makes use of some Facility.
Act of Material Artifact Processing
A Planned Act of performing a series of physical operations on a material artifact in order to change or preserve the artifact.
Amplitude
A Process Profile of an Oscillation Process that is the absolute value of the maximum displacement from a zero, equilibrium, or mean value during one cycle of the Oscillation Process.
Death
A Natural Process in which all biological functions that sustain a living organism cease.
Act of Arrival
An Act of Location Change that consists of the participating entity reaching its destination such that the larger Act of Location Change is completed.
Beginning of Life Stasis
A Operational Stasis that holds during a Temporal Interval when a Material Artifact is first put into operational use such that its designed set of Artifact Functions is capable of operating at or near their designed peak performance levels.
A Beginning of Life Stasis (BoL) is a relatively brief Operational Stasis that is primarily of interest for the purpose of establishing a baseline for operational parameters to be compared to the designed specifications as well as the Material Artifact's performance throughout its operational life.
Act of Military Training Acquisition
An Act of Training Acquisition performed by an Agent by acquiring knowledge of the tactics, techniques, and/or strategies of Military Operations from an Agent or communication medium that realizes a capacity derived from its affiliation with a Military Organization.
Act of Apologizing
An Act of Expressive Communication performed by acknowledging and expressing regret for a fault, shortcoming, or failure.
Bass Frequency
A Sonic Frequency that is between 60 and 250 Hz.
Act of Legal Instrument Use
An Act of Artifact Employment in which some Agent uses some Legal Instrument.
Deactivated Stasis
A Stasis of Artifact Operationality that holds during a Temporal Interval when a Material Artifact is not realizing any of its designed Artifact Functions (or at least not realizing any of its primary functions).
Act of Religious Worship
An Act of Ceremony wherein there occurs acts of religious devotion usually directed towards a deity.
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Act of Consumption
A Planned Act in which a resource is ingested or used up.
Act of Maintenance
An Act of Artifact Modification in which a Material Artifact is modified in order to preserve or restore one or more of its designed Qualities or Functions.
Electromagnetic Wave Process
Electromagnetic Radiation
A Wave Process that is produced by charged particles, involves the periodic Oscillation of electric and magnetic fields at right angles to each other and the direction of wave propogation such that it has a Transverse Wave Profile, and which transfers electromagnetic radiant energy through a portion of space or matter.
Pitch
A Sound Process Profile that is characterized by the frequency of translated sound waves, typically on a continuum from low to high.
Angular Momentum
A Momentum that is the product of an object's moment of inertia and its Angular Velocity.
Fixed Line Network Telephone Call
A Telephone Call transmitted over a telephone network where the telephones are wired into a single telephone exchange.
Medium Frequency
ITU Band Number 6
A Radio Frequency that is between 300 kHz and 3 MHz.
The corresponding Wavelength range is 1,000–100 m
Act of Artifact Modification
An Act of Material Artifact Processing in which an existing Material Artifact is acted upon in a manner that changes, adds, or removes one or more of its Qualities, Dispositions, or Functions.
Excluded from this class are instances of role change or role creation such as the introduction of an artifact as a piece of evidence in a trial or the loading of artifacts onto a ship for transport.
Act of Deceptive Communication
Ac Act of Communication intended to mislead the audience by distortion or falsification of evidence and induce a reaction that is prejudicial to the interests of the audience.
Act of Publishing Mass Media Documentary
An Act of Mass Media Communication involving the preparation and public issuance of information that provides a factual record or report.
Cause
A Process that is the cause of or one of the causes of some other Process.
Act of Portion of Material Consumption
An Act of Artifact Employment in which a Portion of Material is expended.
Decrease of Function
A Decrease of Disposition in which some Independent Continuant has a decrease of some Function that it bears.
Shear Wave Process
A Mechanical Wave that has a Transverse Wave Profile.
Super High Frequency
ITU Band Number 10
A Microwave Frequency that is between 3 and 30 GHz.
The corresponding Wavelength range is 100–10 mm
Defunct Stasis
A Stasis of Artifact Operationality that holds during a Temporal Interval when a Material Artifact no longer maintains its designed set of Artifact Functions (or at least no longer maintains its primary functions).
Act of Denying
An Act of Representative Communication performed by either asserting that something is not true or real or refusing to satisfy a request or desire.
Mechanical Wave Process
A Wave Process that involves Oscillation of a portion of matter such that energy is transferred through the material medium.
Act of Volunteering
An Act of Commissive Communication performed by voluntarily undertaking or expressing a willingness to undertake a service.
entering into military service voluntarily
Act of Assignment
An Act of Declarative Communication in which rights held by one party (the assignor) are transferred to another party (the assignee) with regard to a particular entity as specified by the details of the assignment, which is often prescribed by a contract.
Act of Repayment
An Act of Financial Instrument Use wherein a Financial Instrument is transferred by an Agent (the Debtor) to another Agent (the Creditor) to decrease the amount the Debtor owes to the Creditor from an earlier Act of Loaning.
Frequency
Temporal Frequency
A Process Profile that is characterized by the number of repetitive processes during a particular time period.
Increase of Dependent Continuant
A Change in which some Independent Continuant has an increase in the level of some Dependent Continuant that it bears.
Act of Collision
An Act of Location Change involving the movement of one object such that it collides with another object.
Visible Light Frequency
An Electromagnetic Radiation Frequency of some Electromagnetic Wave that is between 400 and 800 terahertz.
Visible light overlaps with near infrared and near ultraviolet.
Act of Issuing Mass Media Press Release
An Act of Mass Media Communication involving sending forth, distributing, or putting into circulation an official statement issued to one or more members of the media for the purpose of announcing newsworthy information.
Loss of Disposition
A Loss of Realizable Entity in which some Independent Continuant ceases to be the bearer of some Disposition.
Gain of Quality
A Gain of Specifically Dependent Continuant in which an Independent Continuant becomes the bearer of some Quality.
FM Radio Broadcast Frequency
Frequency Modulation Radio Broadcast Frequency
A Very High Frequency that is between 88 and 108 MHz.
International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Region 2
Act of Educational Training Acquisition
An Act of Training Acquisition performed by an Agent by acquiring knowledge of a curriculum from an Agent or communication medium that realizes a capacity derived from its affiliation with some Educational Organization.
Act of Training Instruction
An Act of Training performed by an Agent by imparting knowledge to another Agent.
Far Infrared Light Frequency
An Infrared Light Frequency that is between 300 gigahertz and 20 terahertz.
Act of Espionage
An Act of Intelligence Gathering involving the obtaining of information that is considered secret or confidential without the permission of the holder of the information.
Ultra High Frequency
ITU Band Number 9
A Microwave Frequency that is between 300 MHz and 3 GHz.
The corresponding Wavelength range is 1–0.1 m. Note that the ITU definition of UHF is broader than the definition given by IEEE 521-2002 - IEEE Standard Letter Designations for Radar-Frequency Bands, which sets the frequency range at 300 MHz to 1 GHz.
Counter-Clockwise Rotational Motion
Anti-Clockwise Rotation
CCW Rotational Motion
Counter-Clockwise Rotation
A Rotational Motion in which the direction of rotation is toward the left as seen relative to the designated side of the plane of rotation.
the axial rotation of the Earth as seen from above the North Pole
Low Midrange Frequency
A Sonic Frequency that is between 250 and 500 Hz.
Proper Acceleration
An Acceleration of an object relative to a free-fall, or inertial, observer who is momentarily at rest relative to the object being measured (hence, gravity does not cause Proper Acceleration).
Private Network Telephone Call
A Telephone Call transmitted over a network where a closed group of telephones are connected primarily to each other and use a gateway to reach the outside world, usually used inside companies and call centers (a.k.a. private branch exchange (PBX)).
Act of Religious Training Instruction
An Act of Training Instruction performed by an Agent who realizes a capacity derived from the Agent's affiliation with some Religious Organization by imparting knowledge of the tenets and/or practices of a religion to an Agent either directly or indirectly through some communication medium.
Radio Interference
A Natural Process in which a radio signal is disrupted, whether unintentionally or as the result of an Act of Radio Jamming, Act of Radio Spoofing, or similar Planned Act.
Loss of Quality
A Loss of Specifically Dependent Continuant in which some Independent Continuant ceases to be the bearer of some Quality.
Act of Residing
An Act of Inhabitancy in which a Person lives in a dwelling permanently or for an extended period of time.
Stasis of Mission Capability
A Stasis of Realizable Entity that holds during a temporal interval when a Continuant's capability (or lack thereof) to perform its intended Functions, tasks, or Objectives remains at a relatively constant level.
Motion
A Natural Process in which a Continuant changes its Location or Spatial Orientation over some Temporal Interval.
Ultrasonic Frequency
A Sound Frequency that is greater than 20 kHz.
Facsimile Transmission
Act of Facsimile Transmission
Act of Faxing
An Act of Communication by Media in which the Information Content Entity that inheres in a Document is transmitted over a Telephone Network.
Act of Entertainment
A Planned Act consisting of any activity which provides a diversion or permits people to amuse themselves.
Act of Violence
A Planned Act of causing harm to oneself or to another through the use of physical or verbal force.
Act of Data Transformation
An Act of Information Processing in which an algorithm is executed to act upon one or more input Information Content Entities into one or more output Information Content Entities.
It is not a requirement that the output Information Content Entity(ies) be qualitatively distinct from the input(s) as a result of an Act of Data Transformation, though doing so is typically the goal of performing this Act. Consider, for example, selecting a column in an Excel spreadsheet then executing the \"Remove Duplicates\" Algorithm on it. The intent is to remove rows in that column containing duplicate content. If no duplicate values are present, the information in the column remains unchanged but an Act of Data Transformation was nonetheless performed.
Act of Commissive Communication
An Act of Communication in which an Agent commits themselves to doing, or refraining from doing, some future action.
Examples: agreeing, betting, guaranteeing, inviting, offering, promising, swearing, volunteering
Midrange Frequency
A Sonic Frequency that is between 500 Hz and 2 kHz.
Hard X-ray Frequency
An X-Ray Frequency that is between 3 and 30 exahertz.
Wireless Network Telephone Call
A Telephone Call transmitted over a network where the telephones are mobile and can move anywhere within the coverage area.
Spinning Motion
A Rotational Motion of an Object around an Axis of Rotation that passes through the Object's Center of Mass.
Telephone Call
Act of Telephone Calling
An Act of Communciation by Media transmitted over a telephone network to two or more Persons.
Operational Stasis
A Stasis of Artifact Operationality that holds during a Temporal Interval when a Material Artifact maintains its designed set of Artifact Functions (or at least maintains its primary functions).
Gain of Role
A Gain of Realizable Entity in which some Independent Continuant becomes bearer of some Role.
This class should be used to demarcate the start of the temporal interval (through the occupies temporal region property) that the Entity bears the Role.
Act of Artifact Assembly
An Act of Material Artifact Processing wherein a new Material Artifact are created by fitting component parts together.
putting together a piece of furniture purchased from Ikea
Many Acts of Manufacturing and Construction involve one or more Acts of Artifact Assembly, but Acts of Artifact Assembly can also occur in isolation from these activities.
High Frequency
ITU Band Number 7
A Radio Frequency that is between 3 and 30 MHz.
The corresponding Wavelength range is 100–10 m
Stasis of Artifact Operationality
A Stasis of Realizable Entity that holds during a Temporal Interval when a Material Artifact's designed set of Artifact Functions (or at least its primary functions) or the realizations of those functions remain unchanged.
Increase of Specifically Dependent Continuant
An Increase of Dependent Continuant in which some Independent Continuant has an increase of some Specifically Dependent Continuant that it bears.
Funeral
Act of Funeral Ceremony
An Act of Ceremony in which the Life of a Person who has died is celebrated, sanctified, or remembered.
Delta-v
Change in Velocity
DeltaV
A Process Profile that is the total change in Velocity of an object's Motion.
Delta-v is not equivalent to and should not be confused with Acceleration, which is the rate of change of Velocity.
Act of Employment by an Organization
An Act of Employment wherein an Organization assigns a set of activities to some Person to be performed in exchange for financial compensation.
Longitudinal Wave Profile
Compression Wave
Longitudinal Wave
A Wave Process Profile in which the displacement of participating particles is parallel to the direction of the Wave Process' propogation such that the particles alternate between participating in processes of compression and rarefaction as they participate in individual Wave Processes.
Brilliance Frequency
A Sonic Frequency that is between 6 and 20 kHz.
Act of Possession
A Planned Act in which an agent intentionally exercises control towards a thing.
In all cases, to possess something, an agent must have an intention to possess it.
Act of Suicide
Suicide
An Act of Violence in which some Agent intentionally and voluntarily causes their own death.
Birth
A Process of bringing forth offspring.
Act of Issuing Mass Media Article
An Act of Mass Media Communication involving sending forth, distributing, or putting into circulation a non-fictional essay, especially one included with others in a newspaper, magazine, or journal.
Under Active Control
An Active Stasis during which a Material Artifact participates in an Act of Artifact Employment.
Act of Intelligence Gathering
A Planned Act of producing and/or gathering information by a government or other Organization to guide decisions and actions by answering questions or obtaining advance warning of events and movements deemed to be important or otherwise relevant.
Act of Identifying
An Act of Representative Communication performed by asserting who or what a particular person or thing is.
Act of Issuing Mass Media Documentary
An Act of Mass Media Communication involving sending forth, distributing, or putting into circulation information that provides a factual record or report.
Act of Vocational Training Instruction
An Act of Training Instruction performed by an Agent who realizes a capacity derived from the Agent's affiliation with a Vocational School, Technical School, Trade Organization, or Industry Educational Program Provider by imparting skills required for a specific occupation in industry, agriculture or trade to an Agent either directly or indirectly through some communication medium.
Act of Propaganda
An Act of Deceptive Communication Propaganda intended to influence the attitude of a mass audience toward some cause or position by presenting facts selectively (thus possibly lying by omission) or by using loaded messages to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented.
Act of Warning
An Act of Directive Communication performed by indicating a possible or impending danger, problem, or other unpleasant situation.
Act of Murder
An Act of Homicide with malice aforethought.
Infrasonic Frequency
A Sound Frequency that is below 20 Hz.
Vibration Motion
Mechanical Oscillation
Oscillation Motion
Vibration
A Motion wherein some participant repetitively deviates from a central location to two surrounding locations.
Revolving Motion
A Rotational Motion of an Object around an Axis of Rotation that is located externally to the Site occupied by the Object.
Waveform
A Wave Process Profile that is the shape of the Wave Cycles of the Wave Process when depicted in a visual graph.
Damaged Stasis
Compromised
Damaged
Injured
A Stasis of Specifically Dependent Continuant in which some Independent Continuant bears a Quality or Realizable Entity that has suffered impairment (i.e., a decrease or loss) due to a previous action or event such that the Independent Continuant is now of lesser value, usefulness, or functionality.
This class can be used to instantiate instances that might otherwise be treated by defined classes such as Damaged Vehicle or Wounded Person. The Independent Continuant and Quality or Realizable Entity are participants of the stasis which can in turn be related to the temporal interval via the occupies temporal region property.
Loss of Function
A Loss of Disposition in which some Independent Continuant ceases to be the bearer of some Function.
Legal System Act
A Planned Act performed by an Agent that realizes their role within the context of a legal system of some jurisdiction.
Decrease of Generically Dependent Continuant
A Decrease of Dependent Continuant in which some Independent Continuant has a decrease in the level of a Generically Dependent Continuant that it bears.
For the most part Generically Dependent Continuants do not inhere in their bearers over some continuous scale. The primary exception is religion and this class allows annotation of those cases where an Agent is described as becoming less religious. Other cases would include the decrease of an organization's bearing of some objective.
Act of Renting
An Act of Purchasing wherein a Financial Instrument is used by an Agent (the Renter) as a payment to acquire temporary possession or use of a good or property that is owned or controlled by another Agent (the Seller).
Social Act
A Planned Act having an objective that affects, is performed by, or is performed on behalf of, a community or group of Persons.
Telemetry Process
A Mechanical Process that is highly automated and in which measurements are made or other data is collected and transmitted to receiving equipment to facilitate the monitoring of environmental conditions or equipment parameters at a remote or inaccessible location.
using a GPS tag to track a shark's migratory pattern
using a portable cardiac monitor to remotely collect data on a patient's heart activity (biotelemetry)
Extreme Ultraviolet Light Frequency
An Ultraviolet Light Frequency that is between 3 and 30 petahertz.
Act of Purchasing
An Act of Financial Instrument Use wherein a Financial Instrument is used by an Agent (the Purchaser) to acquire a good or service from another Agent (the Provider).
Act of Ownership
An Act of Possession that includes an agent having certain rights and duties over the property owned.
The relation between the owner and property may be private, collective, or common and the property may be objects, land, real estate, or intellectual property.
Infrared Light Frequency
An Electromagnetic Radiation Frequency of some Electromagnetic Wave that is between 300 gigahertz and 430 tetrahertz.
Timbre
A Sound Process Profile that is characterized by the variation, spectrum, or envelope of translated sound waves, typically on a continuum from dull or dark to bright.
Act of Walking
An Act of Travel that proceeds by foot.
Behavior
An Act in which an Independent Continuant participates as an Agent in response to external or internal stimuli and following some pattern which is dependent upon some combination of that Independent Continuant's internal state and external conditions.
Increase of Disposition
An Increase of Realizable Entity in which some Independent Continuant has an increase of some Disposition that it bears.
Act of Manufacturing
An Act of Material Artifact Processing wherein Material Artifacts are mass produced in a Facility for the purpose of being sold or distributed to consumers.
An Act of Manufacturing typically involves the mass production of goods.
Act of Declarative Communication
An Act of Communication that changes the reality in accord with the proposition of the declaration.
Examples: Baptism, Sentencing a person to imprisonment, Pronouncing a couple husband and wife, Declaring war
Torque
Moment of Force
A Force that is applied to an object in a direction that would tend to cause the object to rotate around an Axis of Rotation and is the rate of change of an object's Angular Momentum.
Act of Employment
An Act of Association wherein an Agent assigns a set of activities to some Person to be performed in exchange for financial compensation.