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It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology.
John Polkinghorne

Meaning of "ontology" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ONTOLOGY

ontology  [ɒnˈtɒlədʒɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ONTOLOGY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ontology is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ONTOLOGY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Ontology

Ontology is the metaphysical study of the nature of being, becoming, existence, or reality, as well as the basic categories of being and their relations. Traditionally listed as a part of the major branch of philosophy known as metaphysics, ontology deals with questions concerning what entities exist or can be said to exist, and how such entities can be grouped, related within a hierarchy, and subdivided according to similarities and differences.

Definition of ontology in the English dictionary

The definition of ontology in the dictionary is the branch of metaphysics that deals with the nature of being. Other definition of ontology is the set of entities presupposed by a theory.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ONTOLOGY


climatology
ˌklaɪməˈtɒlədʒɪ
cosmetology
ˌkɒzmɛˈtɒlədʒɪ
cytology
saɪˈtɒlədʒɪ
dermatology
ˌdɜːməˈtɒlədʒɪ
gerontology
ˌdʒɛrɒnˈtɒlədʒɪ
haematology
ˌhiːməˈtɒlədʒɪ
hematology
ˌhiːməˈtɒlədʒɪ
hepatology
ˌhɛpəˈtɒlədʒɪ
histology
hɪˈstɒlədʒɪ
neonatology
ˌniːəʊnəˈtɒlədʒɪ
otology
əʊˈtɒlədʒɪ
paleontology
ˌpælɪɒnˈtɒlədʒɪ
parasitology
ˌpærəsaɪˈtɒlədʒɪ
primatology
ˌpraɪməˈtɒlədʒɪ
proctology
prɒkˈtɒlədʒɪ
rheumatology
ˌruːməˈtɒlədʒɪ
Scientology
ˌsaɪənˈtɒlədʒɪ
symptomatology
ˌsɪmptəməˈtɒlədʒɪ
tautology
tɔːˈtɒlədʒɪ
teratology
ˌtɛrəˈtɒlədʒɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ONTOLOGY

ontic
ontically
onto
ontogenesis
ontogenetic
ontogenetically
ontogenic
ontogenically
ontogeny
ontologic
ontological
ontological argument
ontologically
ontologist
onus
onus probandi
onward
onward march
onward progress
onwardly

WORDS THAT END LIKE ONTOLOGY

archaeology
astrology
biology
biotechnology
ecology
genealogy
geology
information technology
methodology
microbiology
mythology
neurology
oncology
pathology
pharmacology
physiology
psychology
sociology
technology
terminology
theology

Synonyms and antonyms of ontology in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «ontology» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ONTOLOGY

Find out the translation of ontology to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of ontology from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «ontology» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

本体论
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ontología
570 millions of speakers

English

ontology
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

आंटलजी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الأنطولوجيا
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

онтология
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ontologia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

তত্ত্ববিদ্যা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

ontologie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ontologi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Ontologie
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

オントロジー
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

온톨로지
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ontologi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ontology
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உள்ளியத்துடன்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

नवकल्पना
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ontoloji
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ontologia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ontologia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

онтологія
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ontologie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

οντολογία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ontologie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ontologi
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ontologi
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ontology

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ONTOLOGY»

The term «ontology» is quite widely used and occupies the 36.497 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ONTOLOGY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «ontology» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «ontology» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about ontology

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2 QUOTES WITH «ONTOLOGY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word ontology.
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John Polkinghorne
It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology.
2
Liz Williams
Much of what Karl Popper contributed to the philosophy of science has now passed into mainstream thought, into the currency of that nebulous, tricky ontology known as 'common sense.'

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ONTOLOGY»

Discover the use of ontology in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ontology and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Ethics without Ontology
In this brief book one of the most distinguished living American philosophers takes up the question of whether ethical judgments can properly be considered objective--a question that has vexed philosophers over the past century.
Hilary PUTNAM, Hilary Putnam, 2009
2
Historical Ontology
The focus of this volume, which collects both recent and now-classic essays, is the historical emergence of concepts and objects, through new uses of words and sentences in specific settings, and new patterns or styles of reasoning within ...
Ian Hacking, 2004
3
Ontology: The Hermeneutics of Facticity
Ontology - The Hermeneutics of Facticity, first published in 1988 as volume 63 of Martin Heidegger's Collected Works, is the first English translation of a lecture course given during his legendary early Freiburg period (1915-1923).
Martin Heidegger, 1999
4
Enterprise Ontology: Theory and Methodology
This book offers a theory and a matching methodology which has passed the test of practical experience.
Jan Dietz, 2006
5
The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice
The main text is supplemented by a meta-commentary regarding the theoretical issues posed by ethnographic study./div ""The Body Multiple" is compelling, wonderfully and sometimes slyly well-written, and full of innovative insights into ...
Annemarie Mol, 2002
6
New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and Politics
By gathering essays that exemplify the new thinking about matter and processes of materialization, this important collection shows how scholars are reworking older materialist traditions, contemporary theoretical debates, and advances in ...
‎2010
7
Merleau-Ponty's Ontology
In this work Dillon presents his general thesis that Merleau-Ponty has developed the first genuine alternative to ontological dualism seen in Western philosophy. This is one of the few works available to an English-speaking audience.
Martin C. Dillon, 1997
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Ontology Learning and Population from Text: Algorithms, ...
Suitable for research scientists and others, this book discusses ontologies for the semantic web, knowledge management, information retrieval, text clustering and classification, as well as natural language processing.
Philipp Cimiano, 2006
9
Ontology
This introduction to ontology - the philosophical study of what exists and what it means for something to exist - will provide students of metaphysics with a comprehensive account of the central ideas at the heart of the subject of being.
Dale Jacquette, 2002
10
OWL: Representing Information Using the Web Ontology Language
Learn how to make your content accessible on the Semantic Web by marking it up using the Web Ontology Language - OWL.
Lee W. Lacy, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ONTOLOGY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ontology is used in the context of the following news items.
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Common and specific downstream signaling targets controlled by …
... tnfb, irak3 and irg1l, and transcription factors, like fos, fosl2 and junba, as shown by the gene ontology terms (GO terms) annotation in Fig. «BMC Blogs Network, Jul 15»
2
EHR Workflow, Big Data Combine for Population Health Management
“Secondly, you have to get the terminology and ontology right. We still don't have a consensus on standards for almost anything. There's LOINC ... «The Predictive Analytics Times, Jul 15»
3
Several Critical Flaws Patched in Drupal Module
Only sites with OSF Ontology module enabled are affected,” the advisory says. In addition to the XSS flaw, the OSF module also is susceptible ... «Threatpost, Jul 15»
4
The Philosophical Importance of Algorithms
(ii) ontology (what exists?); and (iii) ethics/morality (what ought we do?). The growth of algorithmic governance would seem to have important ... «h+ Magazine, Jul 15»
5
In Defense of Alain Badiou
This will lead to a description of important themes in Badiou's writings: new possibilities, mathematics as ontology (or the study of being), and set theory's ... «Philosophy Now, Jul 15»
6
How big data broke the back of ETL and the rise of data curation
You want to integrate 10,000 spreadsheets, all independently constructed, and there's no common ontology of terms, no common ontology of ... «TechTarget, Jul 15»
7
In Social Life, We Know Truth through Human Relationships
The new realist “object-oriented ontology” asks us to accept and behave accordingly to this absence of emergency. After all, once we accept that the world as it ... «Big Think, Jul 15»
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Functional annotation and classification of proteins was analyzed by gene ontology (GO) database. Signaling pathways were conducted by ... «BMC Blogs Network, Jul 15»
9
Analysis of exome sequence in 604 trios for recessive genotypes in …
Seeking novel insights into the disorder, we also undertook a non-hypothesis pathway analysis based upon Gene Ontology (GO) annotations ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
10
Ontotext and Keen Analytics Announce Global Partnership
... component and enterprise system development, operational ontology development, and business and technical mentoring and training. «IT News Online, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Ontology [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/ontology>. Apr 2024 ».
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