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Having a small range between boundaries.

Narrow (adjective) means: Having a small range between boundaries. It emerges from small, range, boundary: Two boundaries close together leave little room between them. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 5, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

narrow.spatial · forms: narrow, narrowed, narrower, narrowing, narrows

Examples

Emergence

from: small range boundary
through: Two boundaries close together leave little room between them.

Chain to foundations

smallL4 small.size: a thing that is less extent than most other thingsspaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.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.extentL3 extent.spatial: how much space matter hasrangeL3 range.spatial: the space between two boundariestimeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.matterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space 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.boundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.sizeL2 size.measurement: the space that a thing's matter is innarrowL5 narrow.spatial: Having a small range between boundaries.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.
full chain as text (23 steps)

Neighborhood

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

used by — 35 more not shownbuilt frombottleneckL8bottleneck.constraint — a parameter whose window is narrower than every other parameter's, so it alone sets the system's rangeorderL8order.arrangement — a parameter whose window is narrowreliefL8relief.emergent — The window of a parameter widening after having been narrow.formL9form.shape — The shape of the window, as opposed to whatever is occupying it.certaintyL10certainty.epistemic — a model whose predicted range is narrowtruthL10truth.epistemic — A parameter whose window is narrower than the model it represents, such that the model stays within the bounds of what cfragileL11fragile.conditional — a parameter whose window is narrower than most such windowsgroundL11ground.level — a parameter whose window is narrower than the windows of other parameters it sets, and whose value determines the walls narrowL5narrow.spatial — Having a small range between boundaries.smallL4small.size — a thing that is less extent than most other thingsrangeL3range.spatial — the space between two boundariesboundaryL2boundary.limit — The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.

Used by (43)

bottleneckL8orderL8reliefL8formL9certaintyL10truthL10fragileL11groundL11ruptureL11brinkL12constraintL12inertiaL12marginalL12scaleL12strainL12symmetry versus regularity licenceL12the compression claimL12delicateL13gripL13deferred maintenanceL15delayL15factor of safetyL15groupthinkL15precariousL15safetyL15table stakesL15tragedy of the commonsL15vergeL15good enoughL16rhythmL16essenceL17scarL17frozenL18keystoneL18missing the forest for the treesL18necessityL18no free openingsL18parasitismL18pureL18slackL18thawL18trimming the fatL18insightL19

Relations

contrasts-withwide.spatialthe two widths of a range

Provenance

author: hand · date: 2026-07-31 · confidence: 1.0