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a thing that connects two things

Links (noun) means: a thing that connects two things. It emerges from part, connects: parts bring two things together by connecting them, producing a link. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 8, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

links.connection · forms: link, links

Examples

Emergence

from: part connects
through: parts bring two things together by connecting them, producing a link

Chain to foundations

othersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.connectsL7 connects.verb: When two things are brought together so that a flow between them can happen and persist.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.flowL3 flow.movement: Motion of many parts of matter together through one place.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.broughtL6 brought.past-tense: To come to a place carrying a thing that was not there before.motionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.contactL4 contact.physical: When two things are at the same place in space during time and their boundaries touch.matterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.happenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.partL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.linksL8 links.connection: a thing that connects two thingscomeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.boundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.energyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.timeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.persistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.touchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.structureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.carryingL5 carrying.transporting: To move with a thing that is in one place and then is in another, where the thing remains in contact.
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Neighborhood

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

used bybuilt fromconnectionL9connection.social — a link between things that can be togethernetworkL9network.system — A system that connects distinct entities so they can interact with each other.wayL9way.method — a link of one place to another through spaceinternetL10internet.digital — a system of linked connections through which users send and receive information using devicesreferenceL11reference.citation — a link that connects to a place where information can be foundwirelessL11wireless.electrical — a process that uses radio to transfer information through air instead of a physical linklinksL8links.connection — a thing that connects two thingspartL1part.relation — Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.connectsL7connects.verb — When two things are brought together so that a flow between them can happen and persist.

Used by (6)

connectionL9networkL9wayL9internetL10referenceL11wirelessL11

Relations

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abstractsconnects.verbabstracts

Provenance

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