Product

Any offered product or service. For example: a pair of shoes; a concert ticket; the rental of a car; a haircut; or an episode of a TV show streamed online.

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Specializations of Product

Class	Description
Bus Or Coach	A bus (also omnibus or autobus) is a road vehicle designed to carry passengers. Coaches are luxury buses, usually in service for long distance travel.
Car	A car is a wheeled, self-powered motor vehicle used for transportation.
Dietary Supplement	A product taken by mouth that contains a dietary ingredient intended to supplement the diet. Dietary ingredients may include vitamins, minerals, herbs or other botanicals, amino acids, and substances such as enzymes, organ tissues, glandulars and metabolites.
Drug	A chemical or biologic substance, used as a medical therapy, that has a physiological effect on an organism. Here the term drug is used interchangeably with the term medicine although clinical knowledge makes a clear difference between them.
Individual Product	A single, identifiable product instance (e.g. a laptop with a particular serial number).
Motorcycle	A motorcycle or motorbike is a single-track, two-wheeled motor vehicle.
Motorized Bicycle	A motorized bicycle is a bicycle with an attached motor used to power the vehicle, or to assist with pedaling.
Product Collection	A set of products (either [[ProductGroup]]s or specific variants) that are listed together e.g. in an [[Offer]].
Product Group	A ProductGroup represents a group of [[Product]]s that vary only in certain well-described ways, such as by [[size]], [[color]], [[material]] etc.

While a ProductGroup itself is not directly offered for sale, the various varying products that it represents can be. The ProductGroup serves as a prototype or template, standing in for all of the products who have an [[isVariantOf]] relationship to it. As such, properties (including additional types) can be applied to the ProductGroup to represent characteristics shared by each of the (possibly very many) variants. Properties that reference a ProductGroup are not included in this mechanism; neither are the following specific properties [[variesBy]], [[hasVariant]], [[url]]. | | Product Model | A datasheet or vendor specification of a product (in the sense of a prototypical description). | | Some Products | A placeholder for multiple similar products of the same kind. | | Vehicle | A vehicle is a device that is designed or used to transport people or cargo over land, water, air, or through space. |

Formalization for Product

Property	Constraint
subClassOf	Thing