The Emergence Machine

Railway

physical · transportation · Level 8 · 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 railway is a network of tracks, signals, and infrastructure that persists over a long time.

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Wiktionary senses

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

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

Historical origin

Origin word
rail-way
Origin language
eng

A track made of rails for trains to run on

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL8L7L6L5L3L2L1L0RailwayTrackCommunicationBehaviorMedium MedNetworkPermanentCellChannel… intermediate l…DurationEnvironmentFormInformationActionChangeExistenceMatterEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

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

used byprerequisitesTransportation I…L9RailwayL8NetworkL3PermanentL3TrackL7E1 concrete → E14 abstract

In other languages

Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Network L3 (requires) Technology sense
    A railway is a network of permanent way, consisting of tracks, signals, and infrastructure, designed for the transportation of passengers or freight by rail vehicles.
  • Permanent L3 (requires)
    A railway is a network of permanent way, consisting of tracks, signals, and infrastructure, designed for the transportation of passengers or freight by rail vehicles.
  • Track L7 (requires) polysemous
    A railway is a network of permanent way, consisting of tracks, signals, and infrastructure, designed for the transportation of passengers or freight by rail vehicles.

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