Quality

Overview

Definition

(Elucidation) A quality is a specifically dependent continuant that, in contrast to roles and dispositions, does not require any further process in order to be realized

Examples

The colour of a tomato; the ambient temperature of this portion of air; the length of the circumference of your waist; the shape of your nose; the shape of your nostril; the mass of this piece of gold

Aliases

Not defined.

URI

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000019

Subclass Of

• Entity
• Continuant
• Specifically dependent continuant
• Quality

Ontology Reference

• bfo

Properties

Data Properties

Ontology	Label	Definition	Example	Domain	Range
abi	is curated in foundry	Relates a class to the foundry it is curated in.	The class cco:ont00001262 is curated in the foundry 'enterprise_management_foundry' and 'personal_ai_foundry'.	entity	string
abi	data property	A data property is a property that is used to represent a data property.		entity	string

Object Properties

Ontology	Label	Definition	Example	Domain	Range	Inverse Of
abi	has backing data source	Relates an entity to the data source that provides the underlying data for that entity. This property indicates the origin or source of the data that supports the entity.	A report entity may have a backing data source that provides the raw data used to generate the report.	entity	Data Source	-
abi	has template class	Relates a subject to its template class.		entity	Template Class	-
bfo	exists at	(Elucidation) exists at is a relation between a particular and some temporal region at which the particular exists	First World War exists at 1914-1916; Mexico exists at January 1, 2000	entity	temporal region	-
bfo	continuant part of	b continuant part of c = Def b and c are continuants & there is some time t such that b and c exist at t & b continuant part of c at t	Milk teeth continuant part of human; surgically removed tumour continuant part of organism	continuant	continuant	has continuant part
bfo	has continuant part	b has continuant part c = Def c continuant part of b		continuant	continuant	-
cco	is output of	x is_output_of y iff x is an instance of Continuant and y is an instance of Process, such that the presence of x at the end of y is a necessary condition for the completion of y.		continuant	process	has output
cco	is input of	x is_input_of y iff x is an instance of Continuant and y is an instance of Process, such that the presence of x at the beginning of y is a necessary condition for the start of y.		continuant	process	has input
cco	is affected by	x is_affected_by y iff x is an instance of Continuant and y is an instance of Process, and y influences x in some manner, most often by producing a change in x.		continuant	process	-
bfo	specifically depends on	(Elucidation) specifically depends on is a relation between a specifically dependent continuant b and specifically dependent continuant or independent continuant that is not a spatial region c such that b and c share no parts in common & b is of a nature such that at all times t it cannot exist unless c exists & b is not a boundary of c	A shape specifically depends on the shaped object; hue, saturation and brightness of a colour sample specifically depends on each other	specifically dependent continuant	{'or': ['http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000020', {'and': ['http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000004', {'not': ['http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000006']}]}]}	-
bfo	inheres in	b inheres in c = Def b is a specifically dependent continuant & c is an independent continuant that is not a spatial region & b specifically depends on c	A shape inheres in a shaped object; a mass inheres in a material entity	specifically dependent continuant	{'and': ['http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000004', {'not': ['http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000006']}]}	-
cco	quality of aggregate	x quality_of_aggregate y iff y is an instance of Object Aggregate and x is an instance of Quality, and x inheres_in_aggregate y.		quality	object aggregate	-