Object Property: componentPartOf

definition "Components are those (first-order) parts which partition a compound. The whole is exactly the mereological sum of its components. A loss of a component affects the sortality of the compound (e.g. a complete vs. a defective organism). In many cases, the choice of what is a component of a compound is arbitrary, because there are several ways to divide a whole into parts. Components should be - at least - partly bona fide parts. The use of this relation also requires the commitment to an underlying granularity level. So could we consider the codons (base triples) as the components of a DNA molecule but also the single nucleotides. Note that components of a compound may also be portions of matter." ()
comment "For performance reasons, inverse relations are not encoded as such in OWL." ()
comment "inverse of hasComponent." ()
label "component part of" ()

http://purl.org/biotop/biotop.owl#componentPartOf