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a person who gets a product or service by paying

Customer (noun) means: a person who gets a product or service by paying. It emerges from people, products, services, pay: a person gets a product or service through an exchange involving payment. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 18, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

customer.economic · forms: customer, customers

Examples

Emergence

from: people products services pay get
through: a person gets a product or service through an exchange involving payment

Chain to foundations

windowL7 window.range: The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.partL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.structureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.sizeL2 size.measurement: the space that a thing's matter is inwallL10 wall.range-end: The value of a parameter at which a window ends.businessL8 business.economic: a set of make and use interactions that persist for profitprofitL7 profit.economic: a difference where more is than less after make and usecarryingL5 carrying.transporting: To move with a thing that is in one place and then is in another, where the thing remains in contact and under control.fallL3 fall.gravity: When a thing moves down in space during time.nothingL10 nothing.absence: not a thingreceiveL6 receive.communication: to get something that comes to a placenoneL9 none.quantity: no amount of a thingcomeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.payL16 pay.economic: give resource to another in return for goods or workbackL13 back.spatial: a side of a thing that is part of its boundaryobjectL4 object.entity: A thing that has a boundary and an arrangement of parts that persists through time in a place.entitiesL4 entities.object: things that are each distinct from other thingsgroupsL5 groups.collection: a set of entity that are together because each entity has patternmotionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.surfaceL4 surface.exterior: A part of a boundary that touches a thing and is where the thing is not the thing.numberL6 number.quantity: a mark of many distinct others together in a placesubstanceL12 substance.material: what remains through the drift a window toleratestimeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.servicesL9 services.economic: help that business does for others to usepatternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.controlL4 control.ability: A pattern that persists through time and sets boundaries for how others can change.pressL5 press.force: to move an object until it is in contact with a surfacerelevanceL12 relevance.core: a parameter whose drift moves a wallgiveL7 give.transfer: to make a piece go to otherspersistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.offL2 off.state: when a thing is not here, it is therehelpL5 help.assistance: to make another thing change when it can not change by itselfmaintenanceL14 maintenance.upkeep: Work that holds the parameters of a thing inside its window.workL3 work.effort: a change that happens when energy moves something through spacemarksL5 marks.visual: A difference that is a pattern on a surface when a part changes that surface.broughtL6 brought.past-tense: To come to a place carrying a thing that was not there before.pieceL3 piece.portion: a part of a thing that has its own boundarysideL3 side.surface: A part of the boundary of a thing.contactL4 contact.physical: When two things are at the same place in space during time and their boundaries touch.deviceL5 device.tool: A thing made of matter in which energy flows through a structure to do some change.arrangementL3 arrangement.spatial: a structure of parts in space.flowL3 flow.movement: Motion of many parts of matter together through one place.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.insideL5 inside.spatial: in the space that is within an object's boundarysetsL3 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.energyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.getL5 get.acquisition: you make a thing come to youmatterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.interactingL4 interacting.social: when two things change each other while touchingdistinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thingproductsL3 products.goods: thing that is after a change on matter and has a structureparameterL4 parameter.condition: A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.amountL8 amount.quantity: the quantity of a thing is a size or a numberkeepL5 keep.maintenance: to make something persist in a place or statestateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placedriftL11 drift.aimless: Change of a parameter with nothing that makes it go one way.forceL12 force.push: a press of matter that results in a change in motionresourceL15 resource.material: output falling within the input window of a nearby system. The same substance, different neighbourhood.peopleL6 people.social: a group of distinct entities that persist over time and interact through mutual touchhappenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.systemL5 system.organized: a set of parts that interact together in a structureholdL13 hold.physical: keep thing with touch and force so it does not moveothersL2 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.goL3 go.movement: to move one from a place to another placepreviousL1 previous.temporal: a thing that is before now in timespaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.useL6 use.application: to make something change with a controlrangeL3 range.spatial: the space between two boundariesreturnL14 return.movement: to go back to a previous placedifferenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.customerL18 customer.economic: a person who gets a product or service by payingwayL9 way.method: a link of one place to another through spaceconnectsL7 connects.verb: When two things are brought together so that a flow between them can happen and persist.outsideL6 outside.spatial: the space that is not inside a thing's boundaryquantityL7 quantity.numerical: the size of how many things are in a spaceconditionL3 condition.state: a state of a thing that persists through time in a placeboundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.linksL8 links.connection: a thing that connects two thingstouchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.
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Neighborhood

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

used bybuilt fromsaleL19sale.commercial — a change where a product is transferred to a customer and payment is madecustomerL18customer.economic — a person who gets a product or service by payingpeopleL6people.social — a group of distinct entities that persist over time and interact through mutual touchproductsL3products.goods — thing that is after a change on matter and has a structureservicesL9services.economic — help that business does for others to usepayL16pay.economic — give resource to another in return for goods or workgetL5get.acquisition — you make a thing come to you

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Provenance

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