temporal region

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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/BFO_0000008
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Disjoint with
process, process boundary, spatiotemporal region
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_0000008 a owl:Class ; rdfs:label "temporal region"@en ; obo:BFO_0000179 "t-region" ; obo:BFO_0000180 "TemporalRegion" ; obo:IAO_0000116 "Temporal region doesn't have a closure axiom because the subclasses don't exhaust all possibilites. An example would be the mereological sum of a temporal instant and a temporal interval that doesn't overlap the instant. In this case the resultant temporal region is neither 0-dimensional nor 1-dimensional"@en ; obo:IAO_0000600 "A temporal region is an occurrent entity that is part of time as defined relative to some reference frame. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [100-001])"@en ; obo:IAO_0000601 "All parts of temporal regions are temporal regions. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [101-001])"@en, "Every temporal region t is such that t occupies_temporal_region t. (axiom label in BFO2 Reference: [119-002])"@en ; obo:IAO_0000602 "(forall (r) (if (TemporalRegion r) (occupiesTemporalRegion r r))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [119-002] ", "(forall (x y) (if (and (TemporalRegion x) (occurrentPartOf y x)) (TemporalRegion y))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [101-001] ", "(forall (x) (if (TemporalRegion x) (Occurrent x))) // axiom label in BFO2 CLIF: [100-001] " ; rdfs:isDefinedBy obo:bfo.owl ; rdfs:subClassOf obo:BFO_0000003 ; owl:disjointWith obo:BFO_0000011, obo:BFO_0000015, obo:BFO_0000035 .
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2026-03-08 16:29