Edu:Material Entity

Material Entity

1. An independent continuant that has some portion of matter as part, is spatially extended in three dimensions, continues to exist through some interval of time and has three subtypes: object, fiat object part and object aggregate. (Arp, Robert, Smith, Barry, & Spear, Andrew D. (2015). Building Ontologies with Basic Formal Ontology. Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA: The MIT Press. ) [ [TermlistReferences#arpetal2015 Arp et al., 2015] ]