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material (material)

(material substance object) means that object is structurally made up in part of substance. This relation encompasses the concepts of 'composed of', 'made of', and 'formed of'. For example, plastic is a material of my computer monitor. Compare part and its subrelations, viz component and piece.

Ontology

SUMO / BASE-ONTOLOGY

Class(es)

Classe
is instance of
  inheritable relation  
is instance of
  PredicatoBinario  
is instance of
  material  

Coordinate term(s)

arc weight  authors  before or equal  causes  causes subclass  citizen  closed on  connected  contains information  cooccur  copy  date  decreases likelihood  developmental form  disjoint  distributes  documentation  duration  earlier  editor  element  employs  equal  equivalence relation on  exploits  expressed in language  faces  family relation  finishes  frequency  graph part  greater than  greater than or equal to  has purpose  has skill  holds during  holds obligation  holds right  hole  identity element  in list  in scope of interest  increases likelihood  independent probability  inhabits  inhibits  initial list  instance  inverse  irreflexive on  larger  less than  less than or equal to  measure  meets temporally  modal attribute  overlaps temporally  parent  partial ordering on  partly located  path length  possesses  precondition  prevents  property  publishes  range  range subclass  refers  reflexive on  related internal concept  sibling  smaller  starts  sub attribute  sub collection  sub graph  sub list  sub process  sub proposition  subclass  subrelation  subsumes content class  subsumes content instance  successor attribute  successor attribute closure  temporal part  time  total ordering on  trichotomizing on  uses  valence  version 

Type restrictions

material(subclass Sostanza, OggettoCorpuscolare)

Axioms (1)

Se obj é un' istanza di OggettoCorpuscolare, allora esiste Sostanza substance1,Sostanza substance2 tale che substance1 é fatto di obj e substance2 é fatto di obj e substance1 is not uguale a substance2. 
(=>
      (instance ?OBJ CorpuscularObject)
      (exists
            (?SUBSTANCE1 ?SUBSTANCE2)
            (and
                  (subclass ?SUBSTANCE1 Substance)
                  (subclass ?SUBSTANCE2 Substance)
                  (material ?SUBSTANCE1 ?OBJ)
                  (material ?SUBSTANCE2 ?OBJ)
                  (not
                        (equal ?SUBSTANCE1 ?SUBSTANCE2)))))