annual · temporal
Ask PrometheusAnnual (adjective) means: happening each year. It emerges from year, regular, happen: A year repeats with regular frequency, creating a once-per-year recurrence of an event. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 24, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).
Examples
- The Perseid meteor shower peaks every August when Earth crosses the orbit of comet Swift-Tuttle. astronomy
- The fiscal year-end audit at Toyota requires consolidated reports from all 528 subsidiaries worldwide. economics
- Linux kernel version updates are released every 9-10 months following a strict merge window schedule. computing
Emergence
through: A year repeats with regular frequency, creating a once-per-year recurrence of an event.
- periodic recurrence
- annual occurrence
- temporal regularity
Chain to foundations
full chain as text (13 steps)
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
Relations
| is-a | regular.frequency | annual is a kind of regular frequency |
| abstracts | year.time | annual abstracts the concept of a year |