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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 15, 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

informationL6 information.knowledge: a pattern of marks that are differencesenergyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.touchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.interactingL4 interacting.social: when two things change each other while touchinghelpL5 help.assistance: to make another thing change when it can not change by itselfboundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.qualityL4 quality.value: a state that is a thing more distinct or less distinctpoliteL11 polite.social: state that respect othersitemsL4 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.greatL13 great.size: thing that is big and goodflowL3 flow.movement: Motion of many parts of matter together through one place.peopleL6 people.social: a group of distinct entities that persist over time and interact through mutual touchdifferenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.persistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.motionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.structureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.surfaceL4 surface.exterior: A part of a boundary that touches a thing and is where the thing is not the thing.importantL14 important.significance: an item that has more meaning and more value than most itemsvalueL13 value.worth: how something's distinctness or utility determines its pricemajorL15 major.importance: a thing that is both great in size and importantchangeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.marksL5 marks.visual: A difference that is a pattern on a surface when a part changes that surface.knowledgeL7 knowledge.cognitive: information that people have about somethingstateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placepriceL8 price.economic: the piece of a thing that be given in an interactionpartL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.controlL4 control.ability: A pattern that persists through time and sets boundaries for how others can change.bigL2 big.size: Having much space; more space than another thing has.comeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.deviceL5 device.tool: A thing made of matter in which energy flows through a structure to do some change.entitiesL4 entities.object: things that are each distinct from other thingsgoodL12 good.moral: that which helps and is more than does not helpuseL6 use.application: to make something change with a controlspaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.meaningL8 meaning.significance: a pattern of knowledge that differs from a statetimeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.meanL9 mean.signify: to be a significance of a thingdistinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thinggroupsL5 groups.collection: a set of entity that are together because each entity has patternothersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.makeL4 make.verb: Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.matterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.
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Neighborhood

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

built frommajorL15major.importance — a thing that is both great in size and importantgreatL13great.size — thing that is big and goodimportantL14important.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