Common Core Ontologies

PortionOfMaterial

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

A Portion of Material is a material entity consisting of some quantity of matter of one or more material types. It is the stuff out of which artifacts are made and which processing acts transform.

Examples

  • a billet of steel
  • a batch of resin
  • a volume of coolant

Where it sits in the suite

Portion of Material 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