The Emergence Machine

Density

property · Physics · Level 3 · E0

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Emergence definition

Density is the mass of a substance per unit volume, a quantification of the amount of matter packed into a given space.

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Wiktionary senses

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

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Historical origin

Origin word
density
Origin language
English

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL3L2L1L0DensityMassMatterQuantityEnergyPatternSpaceE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

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

used byprerequisitesSingularityL5Neutron StarL8SalinityL8DensityL3MassL2E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Mass L2 (requires)
    Density is the mass per unit volume of a substance.

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