The ability to represent the behavior of an aggregated unit in terms of its component entities. If the aggregate representation did not maintain state representations of the individual entities, then the decomposition into the entities can only be notional. [MSMP]
Ngamandla okukwazi ukubonisa ukuziphatha kwenani elihlatshaziweyo ngokwezinto zelungu. Ukuba ukuboniswa kohlaphazo akuyingcinanga imo yokumela izinto nganye nganye, lonto ithetha ukuba ukuchithelwa kwizinto kungaba luluvo nje kuphela. [MSMP]