late · temporal
Ask PrometheusLate (adjective) means: after previous usual time. It emerges from previous, time, usual: The usual occurrence of a thing in time is expected; when it happens after that expected time, it is late. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 3, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).
Examples
- The 2020 Tokyo Olympics began on July 23, 2021, one year after the scheduled start date due to the pandemic. institutions
- Halley's Comet appeared in 1986, nine years after its previous observed passage in 1977. astronomy
- The New Horizons spacecraft reached Pluto in 2015, nine and a half years after its 2006 launch. engineering
Emergence
through: The usual occurrence of a thing in time is expected; when it happens after that expected time, it is late.
- temporal deviation
- expectation violation
- delay relative to norm
Chain to foundations
full chain as text (11 steps)
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
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Relations
| is-a | time.dimension | a temporal concept |
| contrasts-with | early.temporal | opposite timing |