container
IRI: https://spec.industrialontologies.org/ontology/construct/Container
Defined In: https://spec.industrialontologies.org/ontology/supplychain/SupplyChain/
SubClass Of: material artifact
Class Hierarchy
owl:Thing › bfo:entity › bfo:continuant › bfo:independent continuant › bfo:material entity › bfo:object › material artifact › container
Direct subclasses:
Definition
material artifact designed to hold, protect, and facilitate the transport of goods across one or more modes of transportation
Explanatory Notes
Shipping Container (for transport): article of transport equipment, strong enough to be suitable for repeated use and specially designed to facilitate the carriage of goods by one or more means of transport without breakage of load [ISO 21067-1: Packaging — Vocabulary].
Examples
- tank container, ISO 20-foot container, ISO 40-foot container, high cube container, refrigerated container (reefer), open-top container, flat rack container, tank container, dry cargo container, bulk container, pallet-wide container, double-door container, ventilated container, insulated container
Primitive Class
This class is declared primitive and it does not have necessary and sufficient condiftions defined.
Primitive Rationale
There are insufficient constructs in the ontology to provide necessary and sufficient conditions
Formal Axioms
First-Order Logic Axioms
Container (x) → MaterialArtifact(x)
Semi-Formal Natural Language Axioms
if x is a ‘container’ then x is a ‘material artifcat’
Description Logic
SubClassOf: constr:MaterialArtifact