# flywheel effect (momentum)

*Ordinarily means:* A process that gets easier and faster once it has started.

A whole that persists through time with less maintenance than its parts would require alone, because their interactions have crossed a wall where the pattern of change becomes self-sustaining.

- Computed level: L15 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: the whole exceeding its parts

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [maintenance](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-maintenance.upkeep), [interaction](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-interaction.process), [persist](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-persist.continue), [change](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-change.process), [wall](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wall.range-end)

**Through:** interaction.process

**Novel properties:**
- persist.continue
- change.process

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-flywheel-effect.momentum*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-flywheel-effect.momentum.json*  
*Every definition provably resolves to space, time, energy and pattern.*