Common Core Ontologies

ActOfMeasuring

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

An Act of Measuring is an intentional act whose output is a measurement information content entity. In it an agent determines the magnitude of a quality of some entity relative to a unit, producing a value that can be recorded and reused.

Examples

  • weighing a component
  • gauging a temperature
  • surveying a distance

Where it sits in the suite

Act of Measuring 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.

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