cart · transport
Ask Prometheusa container on wheels that is used to carry items
Cart (noun) means: a container on wheels that is used to carry items. It emerges from wheel, box, carrying, container: the wheels move and the container holds items so the whole can be moved. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 16, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).
Examples
- The Mars Rover Perseverance transported rock samples in its internal sample cache container across Jezero Crater. engineering
- Walmart shopping carts moved customer purchases from aisles to checkout lanes in 4,700 U.S. stores in 2023. economics
- A wooden mine cart carried 800 pounds of coal through a 19th-century Pennsylvania colliery. history
Emergence
through: the wheels move and the container holds items so the whole can be moved
- portable carrying capacity
- controlled mobility
- load retention during motion
Chain to foundations
full chain as text (342 steps)
- cartL16
- wheelL15
- boxL15
- caseL6
- boundaryL2
- materialL5
- insideL5
- limitL14
- spaceL0
- carryingL5
- containerL6
- itemsL4
- useL6
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
Relations
| is-a | device.tool | is-a |
| medium-for | items.object | medium-for |