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a parameter whose window is wide enough that what passes through it is unchanged

Medium (noun) means: a parameter whose window is wide enough that what passes through it is unchanged. It emerges from parameter, window, wide, enough: The condition's range widens sufficiently so that variation within it does not alter the passing phenomenon. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 9, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

Examples

• The Arecibo Observatory's 305-meter dish reflected radio waves of up to 10 cm wavelength without distortion. engineering
• Antarctic ice cores preserve atmospheric gases from millennia past in air bubbles smaller than 1 mm. geology
• IPv4 packet headers allow data payloads up to 65,535 bytes without fragmentation under standard MTU rules. computing

Emergence

Chain to foundations

Neighborhood

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

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