effort · general

the use of energy to make a change in something

Effort (noun) means: the use of energy to make a change in something. It emerges from energy, change, make, use: energy is applied through use to enable making, resulting in change. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 7, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

Examples

• The James Webb Space Telescope corrects its mirror alignment monthly to compensate for thermal drift in orbit. engineering
• E. coli bacteria expend ATP to rotate flagella and swim toward glucose gradients in gut environments. biology
• The 2023 German railway strike disrupted national transit as workers withheld labor from scheduling systems. institutions

Emergence

Chain to foundations

Neighborhood

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

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