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

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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

Attributes

Own

  • isQualityOf 0..1

    • Description: is quality of is a relation between a quality and the entity that it is a property of.

    • Range: Entity

    • isBaseFor 0..1
    • Description: is base for is a relation between a quality and the realizable entity that it is the basis for.

    • Range: RealizableEntity

Inherited from Attribute:

  • 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