Ontology
nounid
5004·updated May 18, 2026verified
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.
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Framework definitions
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- 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.
- §1
- the metaphysical study of the nature of being and existence
- §2
- (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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