The Emergence Machine

Skirt

physical · material-culture · Level 8 · E9

E9Cultures

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Emergence definition

A skirt is a lower-body garment, typically extending from the waist to the knee or below, characterized by a drape that requires pattern pieces for its construction, and worn as a type of clothing, but this definition is incomplete without understanding of cloth.

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Wiktionary senses

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

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Source: Wiktionary — “skirt”. 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.

thisfoundationsL8L7L6L5L2L1L0SkirtClothingBodyAnimalCloth… intermediate l…FormLifeStructureSubstanceChangeMatterEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

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

used byprerequisitesFarthingaleL9PetticoatL9SkirtL8ClothL5ClothingL7E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Cloth L5 (requires)
    Garment hanging from the waist down -- prerequisite: cloth
  • Clothing L7 (requires)
    Remediation fix

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