The Family of Dictionaries (FOD) establishes stereotypes for various kinds of definition elements. A FOD defines concepts necessary to understand meaning of observable phenomena in the physical world and how they are measured. It provides a set of mathematical definitions for state quantities and measurements used in the command and control of manned and unmanned vehicles, weapons, sensors and other cyber physical devices. This provides the means to equate the semantics of a named element in one model with the semantics of a named element in another via their unique identifier, thus saving time and reducing errors in model-to-model integration. A sampling of available dictionaries in the FOD includes “Standard International Units”, “Global Time Reference Systems”, and “Space and Time”, along with many more.