The Emergence Machine

Burn

process · Action · Level 14 · E0

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Each concept here is mapped to its prerequisites — the ideas you'd need first to understand it — all the way down to four foundations: Space, Time, Energy, Pattern. Click any prerequisite to drill down, or scroll for the chain graph.

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Emergence definition

When heat from fire damages or consumes something, causing destruction or alteration, it is said to burn.

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Wiktionary senses

External reference — all senses of the word “burn” on Wiktionary. This atlas concept maps to only the slice of meaning relevant to the prerequisite graph.

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Source: Wiktionary — “burn”. Content available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Historical origin

Origin language
English

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL14L7L6L5L2L1L0BurnFireCombustionHeat… intermediate l…ForceKinetic EnergyProcessReactionActionChangeMatterMotionEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

Direct prerequisites above, concepts that depend on this one below.

thisprerequisitesBurnL14HeatL5FireL7E1 concrete → E14 abstract

In other languages

  • burn English primary

Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Heat L5 (requires)
    Be consumed or damaged by fire -- prerequisite: heat
  • Fire L7 (requires) polysemous
    Be consumed or damaged by fire -- prerequisite: fire