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a thing that is both great in size and important

Major (adjective) means: a thing that is both great in size and important. It emerges from great, important: when a thing is both great in size and important, it becomes major. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 11, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

major.importance · forms: major, majors

Examples

Emergence

from: great important
through: when a thing is both great in size and important, it becomes major

Chain to foundations

partL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.goodL6 good.moral: that which helps and is more than does not helpcontrolL4 control.ability: A pattern that persists through time and sets boundaries for how others can change.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.useL6 use.application: to make something change with a controlmeaningL8 meaning.significance: a pattern of knowledge that differs from a stateknowledgeL7 knowledge.cognitive: information that people have about somethingpriceL8 price.economic: the piece of a thing that be given in an interactionstructureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.flowL3 flow.movement: Motion of many parts of matter together through one place.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.persistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.itemsL4 items.object: things that are part of a set and are distinct from each othersetsL3 sets.grouped: A pattern of many things that are each different from the others but are bounded together by what is the same about them.energyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.changeL1 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.importantL10 important.significance: an item that has more meaning and more value than most itemsinteractingL4 interacting.social: when two things change each other while touchingmeanL9 mean.signify: to be a significance of a thinghelpL5 help.assistance: to make another thing change when it can not change by itselfdistinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thingvalueL9 value.worth: how something's distinctness or utility determines its pricecomeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.marksL5 marks.visual: A difference that is a pattern on a surface when a part changes that surface.entitiesL4 entities.object: things that are each distinct from other thingsgroupsL5 groups.collection: a set of entity that are together because each entity has patternstateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placeboundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.motionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.surfaceL4 surface.exterior: A part of a boundary that touches a thing and is where the thing is not the thing.peopleL6 people.social: a group of distinct entities that persist over time and interact through mutual touchpoliteL3 polite.social: state that respect othersothersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.timeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.greatL7 great.size: thing that is big and gooddeviceL5 device.tool: A thing made of matter in which energy flows through a structure to do some change.makeL4 make.verb: Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.majorL11 major.importance: a thing that is both great in size and importantinformationL6 information.knowledge: a pattern of marks that are differencestouchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.qualityL4 quality.value: a state that is a thing more distinct or less distinctpatternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.bigL2 big.size: Having much space; more space than another thing has.
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Neighborhood

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

built frommajorL11major.importance — a thing that is both great in size and importantgreatL7great.size — thing that is big and goodimportantL10important.significance — an item that has more meaning and more value than most items

Relations

is-agreat.sizeis-a
is-aimportant.significanceis-a

Provenance

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