On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Matthew Dovey wrote:

> Could these relations be generalised
Yes
> and defined in a generic utility set?
No ;)

I like 'contains' for encloses, so I guess I like 'containedBy' for
within.  Does Mike have a saves-on-typing suggestion?

Rob

>       encloses        Data is range, term is point/range
>       within          Data is point, term is range
>             /partial

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