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Maintenance withdrawn deliberately, so a parameter moves outside its window.

Abandonment (noun) means: Maintenance withdrawn deliberately, so a parameter moves outside its window. It emerges from maintenance, window, parameter, motion: Maintenance ceases and a window's opening allows motion outward, enabling a parameter to pass outside its range. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 15, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

abandonment.withdrawal · forms: abandonment

Examples

Emergence

from: maintenance window parameter motion outside
through: Maintenance ceases and a window's opening allows motion outward, enabling a parameter to pass outside its range.

Chain to foundations

touchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.energyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.contactL4 contact.physical: When two things are at the same place in space during time and their boundaries touch.boundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.forceL12 force.push: a press of matter that results in a change in motionwindowL7 window.range: The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.abandonmentL15 abandonment.withdrawal: Maintenance withdrawn deliberately, so a parameter moves outside its window.parameterL4 parameter.condition: A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.arrangementL3 arrangement.spatial: a structure of parts in space.setsL3 sets.grouped: A pattern of many things that are each different from the others but are bounded together by what is the same about them.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.persistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.motionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.holdL13 hold.physical: keep thing with touch and force so it does not movestructureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.surfaceL4 surface.exterior: A part of a boundary that touches a thing and is where the thing is not the thing.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.keepL5 keep.maintenance: to make something persist in a place or stateoutsideL6 outside.spatial: the space that is not inside a thing's boundaryworkL3 work.effort: a change that happens when energy moves something through spacehappenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.stateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placepartL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.insideL5 inside.spatial: in the space that is within an object's boundarycontrolL4 control.ability: A pattern that persists through time and sets boundaries for how others can change.comeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.pressL5 press.force: to move an object until it is in contact with a surfaceconditionL3 condition.state: a state of a thing that persists through time in a placeobjectL4 object.entity: A thing that has a boundary and an arrangement of parts that persists through time in a place.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.timeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.rangeL3 range.spatial: the space between two boundariesmaintenanceL14 maintenance.upkeep: Work that holds the parameters of a thing inside its window.othersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.makeL4 make.verb: Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.matterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.
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Neighborhood

Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.

built fromabandonmentL15abandonment.withdrawal — Maintenance withdrawn deliberately, so a parameter moves outside its window.maintenanceL14maintenance.upkeep — Work that holds the parameters of a thing inside its window.windowL7window.range — The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.parameterL4parameter.condition — A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.motionL2motion.movement — Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.outsideL6outside.spatial — the space that is not inside a thing's boundary

Relations

contrasts-withmaintenance.upkeep abandnoent is maitennance not done,deliberately
enablesdrift.aimlessWithout maintenance, drift can push parameters toward walls
enablesboundary.limitWhen a parameter crosses a wall, the thing no longer persists

Provenance

author: retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507 · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 0.8 · source: Sample/hundred-words-six-terms.md