PortionOfMaterial
Classhttps://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.