Common Core Ontologies

Temperature

Class
https://www.ontologyrepository.com/CommonCoreOntologies/Temperature

Temperature is a quality of a material entity that reflects the average kinetic energy of its constituents and determines the direction of heat flow between it and its surroundings.

Examples

  • the temperature of a billet
  • ambient temperature of a store

Where it sits in the suite

Temperature is defined in the Common Core Ontologies, a mid-level suite that specialises the top-level categories of Basic Formal Ontology. It is released as part of the maintained, logically consistent CCO release and is reused across the connected ontology modules.

Back to the repository index The 11 ontologies