Definition of Ontology. Meaning of Ontology. Synonyms of Ontology

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Definition of Ontology

Ontology
Ontology On*tol"o*gy, n. [Gr. ? the things which exist (pl.neut. of ?, ?, being, p. pr. of ? to be) + -logy: cf.F. ontologie.] That department of the science of metaphysics which investigates and explains the nature and essential properties and relations of all beings, as such, or the principles and causes of being.

Meaning of Ontology from wikipedia

- Ontology is the philosophical study of being. It is traditionally understood as the subdiscipline of metaphysics focused on the most general features of...
- In information science, an ontology encomp****es a representation, formal naming, and definitions of the categories, properties, and relations between the...
- The Disease Ontology (DO) is a formal ontology of human disease. The Disease Ontology project is hosted at the Institute for Genome Sciences at the University...
- The Gene Ontology (GO) is a major bioinformatics initiative to unify the representation of gene and gene product attributes across all species. More specifically...
- information science, an upper ontology (also known as a top-level ontology, upper model, or foundation ontology) is an ontology (in the sense used in information...
- In the philosophy of religion, an ontological argument is a deductive philosophical argument, made from an ontological basis, that is advanced in support...
- The Web Ontology Language (OWL) is a family of knowledge representation languages for authoring ontologies. Ontologies are a formal way to describe taxonomies...
- The Bibliographic Ontology (BIBO) is an ontology for the Semantic Web to describe bibliographic things like books or magazines. It is written in RDF and...
- The notion of ontology modularization refers to a methodological principle in ontology engineering. The idea is that an ontology is built in a modular...
- process ontology refers to a universal model of the structure of the world as an ordered wholeness. Such ontologies are fundamental ontologies, in contrast...