The Emergence Machine

Cloud

physical · Earth Science · Level 4 · E1

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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

A cloud is a collection of water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air, formed through geological processes such as evaporation, condensation, and precipitation, where water, a transparent, tasteless, odorless liquid composed of hydrogen and oxygen molecules, interacts with air, a mixture of gases that comprise the Earth's atmosphere.

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Wiktionary senses

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

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Source: Wiktionary — “cloud”. 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.

L9L8L7L6L3L2L1L0HazeParticleServingFoodLightAirWaterBuildingCell… intermediate l…FormLifeMassMovementActionChangeMatterMotionEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

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

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Air L3 (requires) Earth Science sense
    Clouds form from water in the air
  • Water L3 (requires) polysemous
    A cloud is a mass of water droplets in the atmosphere
  • Haze L9 (requires) mutual
    SimLex 7.32 — cloud/haze near-synonym

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