extreme · position

A parameter whose value is near a wall, but not so near that the wall's presence dominates.

Extreme (noun) means: A parameter whose value is near a wall, but not so near that the wall's presence dominates. It emerges from parameter, wall, drift, near: A parameter condition whose value is near a spatial wall range-end may undergo aimless drift, sustained by worth valuation that prevents dominance by proximity. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 12, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

Examples

• The International Space Station maintains an orbit at 400 km, close to atmospheric drag but not low enough for rapid decay. engineering
• The S&P 500 hovered near 3,000 points for weeks in August 2019, reacting sharply to small changes but not breaking past psychological resistance. economics
• Neanderthal mitochondrial DNA frequencies in modern Eurasian populations hover near 2%, detectable but not dominant. biology

Emergence

Chain to foundations

Neighborhood

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

Provenance