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

• 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