The Emergence Machine

Car

physical · transportation · Level 3 · E11

E11Organizations

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

A car is a type of vehicle that utilizes energy to facilitate motion, harnessing the capacity to do work to transport people or goods from one place to another.

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Wiktionary senses

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

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

Historical origin

Origin word
carrus
Origin language
lat

A wheeled motor vehicle for transporting passengers

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

L15L14L13L12L2L1L0TaxiMoneyTradeExchange… intermediate l…VehicleFormLifeStructureActionChangeCollectionMatterEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

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

used byprerequisitesCable CarL14CarL3EnergyL0VehicleL2TaxiL15E1 concrete → E14 abstract

In other languages

Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Energy L0 (requires)
    A car is powered by an engine using energy
  • Vehicle L2 (requires)
    A car is a type of vehicle
  • Taxi L15 (requires) mutual
    SimLex 7.42 — car/taxi (strong overlap in everyday use)

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