collection · group

a set of items that are together in a place

Collection (noun) means: a set of items that are together in a place. It emerges from sets, items, space: the items are grouped as a set and coexist within a shared extent of space. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 5, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

Examples

• The British Museum houses a collection of 13 million artifacts from seven millennia of human history. institutions
• A cloud chamber reveals a collection of condensation trails left by ionizing particles from cosmic rays. physics
• The Linux kernel source tree contains a collection of over 30,000 files in its 6.1 release. computing

Emergence

Chain to foundations

Neighborhood

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

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Provenance