The Emergence Machine

Precipitation Rate

physical · Meteorology · Level 8 · E0

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Emergence definition

Precipitation rate is the rate at which precipitation falls from the atmosphere, built on the concept of rate, which measures the magnitude of change per unit time, and precipitation, which is water falling to Earth's surface from clouds, emerging from the interaction of surface and climate.

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Wiktionary senses

External reference — all senses of the word “precipitation rate” 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
precipitation rate
Origin language
English

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL8L7L6L5L2L1L0Precipitation RatePrecipitationClimateWeather… intermediate l…RateForceFormObjectActionChangeExistenceMatterEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

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

thisprerequisitesPrecipitation RateL8RateL2PrecipitationL7E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Rate L2 (requires)
    precipitation rate builds on the concept of rate
  • Precipitation L7 (requires) Meteorology sense
    precipitation rate builds on the concept of precipitation