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  NaturalProcess

Sigma KEE - NaturalProcess
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natural process
A Process that take place in nature spontanously.
Relationships      
Parents process The class of things that happen and have temporal parts or stages. Examples include extended events like a football match or a race, actions like Pursuing and Reading, and biological processes. The formal definition is: anything that occurs in time but is not an Object. Note that a Process may have participants 'inside' it which are Objects, such as the players in a football match. In a 4D ontology, a Process is something whose spatiotemporal extent is thought of as dividing into temporal stages roughly perpendicular to the time-axis.
Children electrical processA Process in which electrical interactions take place
 geological processThe class of activities that are caused by geological forces and affect geological features, and which may affect the biosphere as well.
 mechanical processA Process in which mechanical interactions take place
 resonancea vibration of large amplitude produced by a relatively small vibration near the same frequency of vibration as the natural frequency of the resonating system.
 salinifyingSalination is the class of processes in which either FreshWater or Topsoil becomes imbued with SodiumChloride from sea water or from the evaporation of irrigation water.


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