ontology

Meaning of ontology

noun
  1. The branch of metaphysics that addresses the nature or essential characteristics of being and of things that exist; the study of being qua being.
  2. In a subject view, or a world view, the set of conceptual or material things or classes of things that are recognised as existing, or are assumed to exist in context; in a body of theory, the ontology comprises the domain of discourse, the things that are defined as existing, together with whatever emerges from their mutual implications.
  3. The theory of a particular philosopher or school of thought concerning the fundamental types of entity in the universe.
  4. A logical system involving theory of classes, developed by Stanislaw Lesniewski (1886-1939).
  5. A structure of concepts or entities within a domain, organized by relationships; a system model.

Information about ontology

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of ontology is: ontologies.
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Hyphenation of ontology

on-tol-ogy

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
  • ontology is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

Translation of ontology

Anagrams of ontology

tonology

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