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happening each year

Annual (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 10, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

annual.temporal · forms: annual, annuals

Examples

Emergence

from: year regular happen
through: A year repeats with regular frequency, creating a once-per-year recurrence of an event.

Chain to foundations

happenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.yearL9 year.time: a length of time that persists about three hundred sixty five daysspaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.timeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.annualL10 annual.temporal: happening each yearregularL1 regular.frequency: a thing that is the same pattern again over timepatternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.
full chain as text (13 steps)

Neighborhood

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

built fromannualL10annual.temporal — happening each yearyearL9year.time — a length of time that persists about three hundred sixty five daysregularL1regular.frequency — a thing that is the same pattern again over timehappenL2happen.event-occurrence — A change that is at some place during time.

Relations

is-aregular.frequencyannual is a kind of regular frequency
abstractsyear.timeannual abstracts the concept of a year

Provenance

author: openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 0.6