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drift too slow for the system it acts on to register

Erosion (noun) means: drift too slow for the system it acts on to register. It emerges from drift, system, register, act: An aimless drift performs an act so slowly that the organized system fails to detect or record it, despite ongoing change within a survivable range. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 12, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

erosion.process · forms: erosion

Examples

Emergence

from: drift system register act
through: An aimless drift performs an act so slowly that the organized system fails to detect or record it, despite ongoing change within a survivable range.

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.controlL4 control.ability: A pattern that persists through time and sets boundaries for how others can change.orderL8 order.arrangement: a parameter whose window is narrowputL3 put.placement: to move something into a placespaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.rangeL3 range.spatial: the space between two boundariesaloneL3 alone.state: a state where it is in a place and no others are in that placestructureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.erosionL12 erosion.process: drift too slow for the system it acts on to registersizeL2 size.measurement: the space that a thing's matter is inflowL3 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 boundarypersistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.offL2 off.state: when a thing is not here, it is theresetsL3 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.smallL4 small.size: a thing that is less extent than most other thingsenergyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.wayL9 way.method: a link of one place to another through spacechangeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.connectsL7 connects.verb: When two things are brought together so that a flow between them can happen and persist.carryingL5 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.matterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.actL3 act.deed: do somethingnothingL10 nothing.absence: not a thingoutsideL6 outside.spatial: the space that is not inside a thing's boundaryquantityL7 quantity.numerical: the size of how many things are in a spacelistL9 list.ordered: a structure of pieces that are in an orderdistinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thingparameterL4 parameter.condition: A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.noneL9 none.quantity: no amount of a thingcomeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.registerL10 register.record: a list where items are addedamountL8 amount.quantity: the quantity of a thing is a size or a numbermarksL5 marks.visual: A difference that is a pattern on a surface when a part changes that surface.extentL3 extent.spatial: how much space matter hasobjectL4 object.entity: A thing that has a boundary and an arrangement of parts that persists through time in a place.conditionL3 condition.state: a state of a thing that persists through time in a placestateL2 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.pieceL3 piece.portion: a part of a thing that has its own boundarybroughtL6 brought.past-tense: To come to a place carrying a thing that was not there before.boundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.motionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.narrowL5 narrow.spatial: Having a small range between boundaries.surfaceL4 surface.exterior: A part of a boundary that touches a thing and is where the thing is not the thing.addL4 add.operation: to put parts together so that there is more than one part alonenumberL6 number.quantity: a mark of many distinct others together in a placehappenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.systemL5 system.organized: a set of parts that interact together in a structureothersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.linksL8 links.connection: a thing that connects two thingstimeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.contactL4 contact.physical: When two things are at the same place in space during time and their boundaries touch.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 placetouchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.arrangementL3 arrangement.spatial: a structure of parts in space.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.
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Neighborhood

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

built fromerosionL12erosion.process — drift too slow for the system it acts on to registerdriftL11drift.aimless — Change of a parameter with nothing that makes it go one way.systemL5system.organized — a set of parts that interact together in a structureregisterL10register.record — a list where items are addedactL3act.deed — do something

Relations

is-adrift.aimlessdiffers from drift by rate and registration

Provenance

author: retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507 · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 0.8 · source: Sample/hundred-words-six-terms.md