Elucidation: A continuant that is dependent on one or other independent continuants and can migrate from one bearer to another through a process of copying. We can think of generically dependent continuants as complex continuant patterns either of the sort created by authors or designers. Source: Robert Arp, Barry Smith, and Andrew D. Spear: Building Ontologies with Basic Formal Ontology. The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England. ©2015 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ISBN 978-0-262-52781-1, Glossary. https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols4/ontologies/bfo/classes/http%253A%252F%252Fpurl.obolibrary.org%252Fobo%252FBFO_0000031