Characteristic
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| Definition: | fact type that has exactly one role |
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| Definition: | abstraction of a property of an object (thing) or of a set of objects |
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| Source: | SBVR | Meaning | Concept |
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| Source: | ISO 1087-1 (English) | 3.2.4 | characteristic |
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| Note: | A characteristic always has exactly one role, but it can be defined using fact types having multiple roles. |
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| Example: | The characteristic ‘driver is of age’ with this definition: “the age of the driver is at least the EU-Rent Minimum Driving Age.” The semantic formulation of this definition appears in the introduction to Clause 9 - Logical Formulation of Semantics Vocabulary.Property "Example" (as page type) with input value "The characteristic ‘driver is of age’ with this definition: “the age of the driver is at least the EU-Rent Minimum Driving Age.” The semantic formulation of this definition appears in the introduction to Clause 9 - Logical Formulation of Semantics Vocabulary." contains invalid characters or is incomplete and therefore can cause unexpected results during a query or annotation process. |
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| Example: | The fact type ‘shipment is late’ whose instances are actualities of shipments being late. There is one instance of the fact type for each shipment that is late. |
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| Synonym | unary fact type |
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