keep · maintenance

to make something persist in a place or state

Keep (verb) means: to make something persist in a place or state. It emerges from persist, control, make, space: control directs the persistence of something across space and time, constraining its state through active maintenance. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 5, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

Examples

• The International Space Station maintains orbit at 400 km altitude through periodic reboosts from docked spacecraft. engineering
• Cyanobacteria in Lake Vostok, Antarctica, maintain metabolic activity at -2C using geothermal heat. biology
• The Python 2.7 programming language was maintained with security updates until its official end-of-life in 2020. computing

Emergence

Chain to foundations

Neighborhood

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

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