{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.surface-location","code":"thing-surface-location","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/surface-location/","name":"surface","alternateNames":["interface","hard palate","palate","roof of the mouth","celestial sphere","sphere","empyrean","firmament","heavens","vault of heaven","welkin","inside"],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.2.0-wave.3","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Physical world and living systems","entryKind":"noun.location","plane":"PHY","domain":["PHY.PLC"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{"substance":"place","origin":"natural","agency":"inert","mobility":"fixed","scale":"geographic","affordances":["observable"]}},"whatItIs":"The extended two-dimensional outer boundary of a three-dimensional object, in the WordNet sense of the surface as a place, that is, the outermost layer or face of a body where it meets its surroundings, such as the surface of the Earth, 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