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when a thing changes so its size is more than before

Increase (verb) means: when a thing changes so its size is more than before. It emerges from change, difference, size, time: A change over time creates a difference that makes the size greater. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 3, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

increase.quantity · forms: increase, increased, increases, increasing

Examples

Emergence

from: change difference size time
through: A change over time creates a difference that makes the size greater.

Chain to foundations

increaseL3 increase.quantity: when a thing changes so its size is more than beforeenergyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.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.sizeL2 size.measurement: the space that a thing's matter is inchangeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.matterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.
full chain as text (14 steps)

Neighborhood

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

used bybuilt frombenefitsL4benefits.advantage — a difference that increases a conditionpoint of inflectionL12point-of-inflection.curvature — the moment when a parameter stays inside its window yet its drift switches from increasing to decreasing (or vice-versa)cancerL17cancer.disease — a change when cells grow more than usual and differ from normal in structure or functioncompound interestL18compound-interest.small-cause — a small cause that grows because each new effect becomes a cause in the same direction, drifting the parameter further wsummerL24summer.season — the warmest season of the year, occurring when Earth's axial tilt causes increased sunlight duration and intensityincreaseL3increase.quantity — when a thing changes so its size is more than beforechangeL1change.process — When a thing is not the same after as it was before.differenceL1difference.relation — When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.sizeL2size.measurement — the space that a thing's matter is intimeL0time.dimension — The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.

Used by (5)

benefitsL4point of inflectionL12cancerL17compound interestL18summerL24

Relations

is-achange.processincrease is a kind of change

Provenance

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