Class: Quality
A quality is an attribute that is intrinsically associated with its bearer (or its parts), but whose presence/absence and observed/measured value may vary.
URI: sio:Quality
Parents
- is_a: Attribute - An attribute is a characteristic of some entity.
Children
- AssertionalQualifier - An assertional qualifier is the quality of affirmation, either being positive or negative.
- ExistenceQuality - existence quality is the quality of an entity that describe in what environment it is known to exist.
- InformationalQuality - An informational quality is a quality that pertains to information.
- Intensity - intensity is a quality that represents the strength or degree of something.
- Normality - normality is the quality in which the value may differ from normal or average
- ObjectQuality - An object quality is quality of an object.
- ProcessQuality - A process quality is quality that is associated with a process.
Referenced by Class
- RealizableEntity hasBasis 0..1 Quality
- Entity hasQuality 0..1 Quality
Attributes
Own
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isQualityOf 0..1
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Description: is quality of is a relation between a quality and the entity that it is a property of.
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Range: Entity
- isBaseFor 0..1
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Description: is base for is a relation between a quality and the realizable entity that it is the basis for.
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Range: RealizableEntity
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Inherited from Attribute:
- hasCreator 0..1
- Description: has creator is a relation between an entity and that which created it.
- Range: Entity
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hasAttribute 0..1
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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.
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Range: Entity
- satisfies 0..1
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Description: satisfies is a relation between an entity and the specification or objective that it conforms to.
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Range: Description
- isRelatedTo 0..1
- Description: A is related to B iff there is some relation between A and B.
- Range: Entity
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