Spatiotemporal region
Overview​
Definition​
(Elucidation) A spatiotemporal region is an occurrent that is an occurrent part of spacetime
Examples​
The spatiotemporal region occupied by the development of a cancer tumour; the spatiotemporal region occupied by an orbiting satellite
Aliases​
Not defined.
URI​
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000011
Subclass Of​
Ontology Reference​
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 | preceded by | b preceded by c = Def b precedes c | The temporal region occupied by the second half of the match is preceded by the temporal region occupied by the first half of the match | occurrent | occurrent | precedes |
| bfo | precedes | (Elucidation) precedes is a relation between occurrents o, o' such that if t is the temporal extent of o & t' is the temporal extent of o' then either the last instant of o is before the first instant of o' or the last instant of o is the first instant of o' & neither o nor o' are temporal instants | The temporal region occupied by Mary's birth precedes the temporal region occupied by Mary's death. | occurrent | occurrent | - |
| bfo | has occurrent part | b has occurrent part c = Def c occurrent part of b | Mary's life has occurrent part Mary's 5th birthday | occurrent | occurrent | occurrent part of |
| bfo | has temporal part | b has temporal part c = Def c temporal part of b | Your life has temporal part the first year of your life | occurrent | occurrent | temporal part of |
| bfo | occurrent part of | (Elucidation) occurrent part of is a relation between occurrents b and c when b is part of c | Mary's 5th birthday is an occurrent part of Mary's life; the first set of the tennis match is an occurrent part of the tennis match | occurrent | occurrent | - |
| bfo | temporal part of | b temporal part of c = Def b occurrent part of c & (b and c are temporal regions) or (b and c are spatiotemporal regions & b temporally projects onto an occurrent part of the temporal region that c temporally projects onto) or (b and c are processes or process boundaries & b occupies a temporal region that is an occurrent part of the temporal region that c occupies) | Your heart beating from 4pm to 5pm today is a temporal part of the process of your heart beating; the 4th year of your life is a temporal part of your life, as is the process boundary which separates the 3rd and 4th years of your life; the first quarter of a game of football is a temporal part of the whole game | occurrent | occurrent | - |
| cco | is cause of | x is_cause_of y iff x and y are instances of Occurrent, and y is a consequence of x. | occurrent | occurrent | caused by | |
| cco | caused by | x caused_by y iff x and y are instances of Occurrent, and x is a consequence of y. | occurrent | occurrent | - | |
| bfo | temporally projects onto | (Elucidation) temporally projects onto is a relation between a spatiotemporal region s and some temporal region which is the temporal extent of s | The world line of a particle temporally projects onto the temporal region extending from the beginning to the end of the existence of the particle | spatiotemporal region | temporal region | - |
| bfo | spatially projects onto | (Elucidation) spatially projects onto is a relation between some spatiotemporal region b and spatial region c such that at some time t, c is the spatial extent of b at t | spatiotemporal region | spatial region | - |