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ONTOLOGY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The metaphysical study of the nature of being and existence
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("ontology" is a kind of...):
metaphysics (the philosophical study of being and knowing)
Derivation:
ontological (of or relating to ontology)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(computer science) a rigorous and exhaustive organization of some knowledge domain that is usually hierarchical and contains all the relevant entities and their relations
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("ontology" is a kind of...):
arrangement; organisation; organization; system (an organized structure for arranging or classifying)
Domain category:
computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)
