| Definition: An entity that has temporal parts and that happens, unfolds or develops through time. Sometimes also called perdurants. |
| Examples: the life of an organism, a surgical operation as processual context for a nosocomical infection, the spatiotemporal context occupied by a process of cellular meiosis, the most interesting part of Van Gogh’s life, the spatiotemporal region occupied by the development of a cancer tumor |
| •owl:Thing |
| •entity |
| •occurrent |