The Emergence Machine

Train

physical · transportation · Level 4 · 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 train is a connected series of railway vehicles on tracks, propelled by energy and driven by the interaction of energy with the particles that make up matter, enabling motion through rotation.

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Wiktionary senses

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

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

Historical origin

Origin word
trainer
Origin language
fra

A series of connected railway carriages moved by locomotive

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL4L3L2L1L0TrainSystemWheelFormProcessStructureActionChangeMatterMotionEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

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

used byprerequisitesTramL5TrainL4WheelL3E1 concrete → E14 abstract

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Wheel L3 (requires)
    Connected railway vehicles on tracks -- prerequisite: wheel

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