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Ontology

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

A set of concepts and categories in a subject area or knowledge domain that shows their properties and the relationships among them to enable interoperability among disparate elements and systems and specify interfaces to independent, knowledge-based services for the purpose of enabling certain kinds of automated reasoning.

polysemousIEEE Guide for Terms and Concepts in Intelligent Process Automation

Senses

Wordset Dictionary

the metaphysical study of the nature of being and existence

Wordset Dictionary

(computer science) a rigorous and exhaustive organization of some knowledge domain that is usually hierarchical and contains all the relevant entities and their relations

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