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When a thing moves down in space during time.

Fall (verb) means: When a thing moves down in space during time. It emerges from motion, space, time: The motion moves the thing down in space during time. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 3, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

fall.gravity · forms: fall, fallen, falling, falls, fell

Examples

Emergence

from: motion space time
through: The motion moves the thing down in space during time.

Chain to foundations

spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.motionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.timeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.fallL3 fall.gravity: When a thing moves down in space during time.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.
full chain as text (9 steps)

Neighborhood

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

used bybuilt fromresourceL15resource.material — output falling within the input window of a nearby system. The same substance, different neighbourhood.rock bottomL20rock-bottom.floor — the first wall that holds under a falling parameter, which is why the lowest point is also the first point a rebuild canfallL3fall.gravity — When a thing moves down in space during time.motionL2motion.movement — Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.spaceL0space.extent — Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.timeL0time.dimension — The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.

Used by (2)

resourceL15rock bottomL20

Relations

is-amotion.movementis-a
contrasts-withrise.movementcontrasts-with

Provenance

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