measurement datum count STATO http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/stato.owl Damion Dooley's note: Unfortunately an IAO "count" cannot be a subclass of immaterial entity "linear coordinate" as this leads to disjoint conflict. ready for release A count is a data item denoted by an integer and represented the number of instances or occurences of an entity Damion Dooley's note: The result of the act of counting is a scalar number whose unit is a description of the thing being counted. One can count 10 oranges and compare that to a count of 5 oranges. One can generalize that a count of 5 oranges is a count of pieces of fruit. One can then compare 5 oranges and 5 apples, fruitfully!; Damion Dooley's note: A count datum often implicity carries a date range for which the count is ascertained, or estimated, or simulated for.