Class: Interacting

interacting is a process characterized by the interaction between two or more entities.

URI: sio:Interacting

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Parents

  • is_a: Process - A process is an entity that is identifiable only through the unfolding of time, has temporal parts, and unless otherwise specified/predicted, cannot be identified from any instant of time in which it exists.

Children

  • ChemicalInteraction - A chemical interaction is a biochemical process in which chemical entities interact through some set of attractive forces.
  • Communicating - communicating is the process of conveying information through the exchange of thoughts, messages, or information, as by speech, visuals, signals, writing, or behaviour.
  • Comparing - comparing is the process of examining a set of objects and determining their equality or inequality based on one or more features.
  • Creating - creating is the process in which an entity comes into existence.
  • Destroying - destroying is a process in which something is broken down and/or ceases to exist.
  • Measuring - measuring is the process of determining the size, amount, or degree of (something) by using an instrument or device marked in standard units
  • Modifying - modifying is the process by which an entity gains or loses parts, qualities, roles, dispositions, functions, etc, but maintains their identity through these changes.
  • Observing - observing is a process of passive interaction in which one entity makes note of attributes of one or more entities.
  • Regulating - regulating is a process that modulates the attributes of an object or process.
  • Sampling - sampling is the act of obtaining a sample, whether through selection, collection or preparation.
  • Transporting - transporting is a process in which one object physically moves another object from one location to another.

Referenced by Class

Attributes

Inherited from Process:

  • hasCreator 0..1
    • Description: has creator is a relation between an entity and that which created it.
    • Range: Entity

  • hasAttribute 0..1

    • Description: has attribute is a relation that associates a entity with an attribute where an attribute is an intrinsic characteristic such as a quality, capability, disposition, function, or is an externally derived attribute determined from some descriptor (e.g. a quantity, position, label/identifier) either directly or indirectly through generalization of entities of the same type.

    • Range: Entity

    • satisfies 0..1

    • Description: satisfies is a relation between an entity and the specification or objective that it conforms to.

    • Range: Description

    • isRelatedTo 0..1
    • Description: A is related to B iff there is some relation between A and B.
    • Range: Entity
    • hasParticipant 0..1

    • Description: has participant is a relation that describes the participation of the object in the (processual) subject.

    • Range: Entity