appears_in: []
contributor:
  email: cthoyt@gmail.com
  github: cthoyt
  name: Charles Tapley Hoyt
  orcid: 0000-0003-4423-4370
depends_on: []
deprecated: false
description: 'This ontology defines a set of properties which may be used for reprenting
  physical quantities. Each is an RDF Property which realtes a quantity to a number
  which expreses the quantity in that expressed that quntity in the given unit. :bed
  ex:length _:a. _a: m 2. Property chaining is the equivalent of unit multiplication.
  Inverse properties correspond to reciprocal units. Because conventional signs for
  units are very case-sensitive, this ontology breaks from the normal convention that
  all property localnames begin with lowercase. See also http://www-ksl.stanford.edu/knowledge-sharing/papers/engmath.html'
example: C
example_extras: []
github_request_issue: 2016
homepage: http://www.w3.org/2007/ont/unit
keywords:
- unit
- units
mappings: {}
name: An Ontology for Units of Measure
namespace_in_lui: false
preferred_prefix: un
prefix: un
providers: []
publications: []
rdf_uri_format: http://www.w3.org/2007/ont/unit#$1
synonyms: []
uri_format: http://www.w3.org/2007/ont/unit#$1
