Definition: An artifact that has a product role.

Informal definition: An object that has been designed by a person or people to fulfil a function and has potential economic value.

Comment: This entity only includes objects. Commodities and intangible entities such as software are classified separately.

Curator note: This entity is the one specified in the Product Life Cycle Ontologies. It could not be imported because those ontologies do not conform to the OBO Foundry standard.

This definition was imported from the Addiction Ontology (see https://addictovocab.org/). Comments and suggestions for improvements are welcome using the Qeios review system.

Definitions imported from the Addiction Ontology (AddictO) are what are known as ‘ontological definitions’. See this article in Qeios for an explanation https://www.qeios.com/read/YGIF9B.

Ontological definitions can sometimes be hard to read. In those cases we also include an informal definition.

Definitions also often require elaboration to make it clear how they should be used and what they include. In those cases we include a comment.

Also, definitions sometimes require an explanation as to how they came about to help users understand how they relate to alternative definitions. In those cases we include a curator note.

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