This concept’s semantic web URI is: [ http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/en/SpatiallyContinuousThing ]

Spatially continuous thing

Unique Tag: [ SpatiallyContinuousThing ]

A specialization of spatial thing. For every instance REGION of spatially continuous thing, any two points it subsumes are connected by some path it also subsumes. Positive exemplars include a drinking glass, a haystack, a spiderweb, or a region of space in the shape of any of these things. If the glass is broken and its pieces no longer touch each other, it is not a spatially continuous thing. Some borderline exemplars depend on granularity. At a macroscopic level of granularity, a dense cloud of smoke is effectively continuous. On the microscopic level, it is composed of independent particles that do not touch each other.
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