The Emergence Machine

Cloth

physical · Materials · Level 5 · E9

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Emergence definition

Cloth is a woven or non-woven assembly of fibers, which are long, thin, flexible strands of material that emerge from the organized arrangement of matter, combining with substance to form a specific physical form, and exhibiting patterns that govern its transformations and binding, used to create various textures, patterns, and structures for functional or aesthetic purposes.

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Wiktionary senses

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

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Source: Wiktionary — “cloth”. 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.

thisfoundationsL5L4L3L2L1L0ClothFiberMaterialFormStructureSubstanceMatterEnergyPatternSpaceE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

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

used byprerequisitesBlanketL6BroochL6Button FastenerL6Canvas FabricL6Design ClothL6ClothL5FiberL4E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Fiber L4 (requires)
    Cloth requires fiber

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