Meaning of ontology in English

ontology

noun [ U ]

social science specialized

/ɑːnˈtɑː.lə.dʒi/ uk

/ɒnˈtɒl.ə.dʒi/

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the part of philosophy that studies what it means to exist

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(Definition of ontology from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of ontology

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Recent experiments have shown the ontology of the waveform to be taken as real.

From Phys.Org

Is marriage really the basis of female ontology in 2015?

From Slate Magazine

This is really a question of ontology that has played out over at least several millenia.

From Phys.Org

Social ontology is a beautiful subject by the way.

From The New York Review of Books

But if you have a theory of social ontology it ought to have implications in other areas of social philosophy concerning other issues.

From The New York Review of Books

If ontology is the philosophical study of existence, then object-oriented ontology puts things at the center of being.

From The Atlantic

It thus remains unclear whether a consensus ontology is achievable at all.

From National Geographic

What makes baseball-like practices interesting is the fact that, to put the point as a philosopher might, their ontologies are practice-relative.

From NPR

While our ontologies did not always overlap there was a broadminded sense that to be human meant to encounter the world's richness in ways that always create and enhance meaning.

From NPR

It demonstrates services for analysis and evaluation in design based on the ontology.

From the Cambridge English Corpus

The main objective of this research is to introduce a formal ontology for standard representation of engineering requirements.

From the Cambridge English Corpus

In the presence of a formal ontology, it is possible to automatically evaluate the quality of the requirement statements.

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Accordingly, parts of speech (verbs and nouns) and grammatical functions (subject, object, complement, and adjuncts) define the core classes of the ontology.

From the Cambridge English Corpus

It first proposes an ontology-based approach for representing desired material-flow processing functions in a formal and unambiguous manner.

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Section 5 is an example to demonstrate the usefulness of the ontology in practical engineering design.

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