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Noun: ontology  ón'tó-lu-jee
  1. (computing) a rigorous and exhaustive organization of some knowledge domain that is usually hierarchical and contains all the relevant entities and their relations
     
  2. The metaphysical study of the nature of being and existence

Derived forms: ontologies

Type of: arrangement, metaphysics, organisation [Brit], organization, system

Encyclopedia: Ontology