spatial region

Class
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000006
Properties
Disjoint with
continuant fiat boundary, site
From owl:disjointWith and owl:AllDisjointClasses membership; the listed classes are pairwise disjoint with this one.
@prefix obo: <http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/> . @prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> . @prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> . obo:BFO_0000006 a owl:Class ; rdfs:label "spatial region"@en ; obo:BFO_0000179 "s-region" ; obo:BFO_0000180 "SpatialRegion" ; obo:IAO_0000116 "BFO 2 Reference: Spatial regions do not participate in processes."@en, "Spatial region doesn't have a closure axiom because the subclasses don't exhaust all possibilites. An example would be the union of a spatial point and a spatial line that doesn't overlap the point, or two spatial lines that intersect at a single point. In both cases the resultant spatial region is neither 0-dimensional, 1-dimensional, 2-dimensional, or 3-dimensional."@en ; obo:IAO_0000600 "A spatial region is a continuant entity that is a continuant_part_of spaceR as defined relative to some frame R. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [035-001])"@en ; obo:IAO_0000601 "All continuant parts of spatial regions are spatial regions. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [036-001])"@en ; obo:IAO_0000602 "(forall (x y t) (if (and (SpatialRegion x) (continuantPartOfAt y x t)) (SpatialRegion y))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [036-001] ", "(forall (x) (if (SpatialRegion x) (Continuant x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [035-001] " ; rdfs:isDefinedBy obo:bfo.owl ; rdfs:subClassOf obo:BFO_0000141 ; owl:disjointWith obo:BFO_0000029, obo:BFO_0000140 .
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2026-03-08 16:29