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the thing that follows now in time

Next (adjective) means: the thing that follows now in time. It emerges from follows, time: When follow is within time, it makes an after thing after now. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 10, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

next.temporal · forms: next, nexted, nexting, nexts

Examples

Emergence

from: follows time
through: When follow is within time, it makes an after thing after now.

Chain to foundations

arrangementL3 arrangement.spatial: a structure of parts in space.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.smallL4 small.size: a thing that is less extent than most other thingsoutsideL6 outside.spatial: the space that is not inside a thing's boundaryorderL8 order.arrangement: a parameter whose window is narrowspaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.motionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.extentL3 extent.spatial: how much space matter hasmatterL1 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.rangeL3 range.spatial: the space between two boundariespartL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.narrowL5 narrow.spatial: Having a small range between boundaries.stateL2 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.energyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.insideL5 inside.spatial: in the space that is within an object's boundarytimeL0 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.followsL9 follows.sequential: to move after something in time with the same order as it happensparameterL4 parameter.condition: A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.windowL7 window.range: The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.sizeL2 size.measurement: the space that a thing's matter is inobjectL4 object.entity: A thing that has a boundary and an arrangement of parts that persists through time in a place.conditionL3 condition.state: a state of a thing that persists through time in a placestructureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.nextL10 next.temporal: the thing that follows now in time
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Neighborhood

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

used bybuilt fromsundayL11sunday.day — the day of the week that is the last day before the next week beginseditionL15edition.publication — a form of a text that is a next type after a previous oneinterregnumL15interregnum.no-setter — A time between two who set a group's walls, when no one sets them, so what happens then sets who sets them next.lagL16lag.temporal — feedback arriving within the window but too late for the correction to land before the next drift.outrage of the weekL19outrage-of-the-week.serial — A grievance a collective self keeps only until the next grievance comes, so none is kept for the time its repair would tdecemberL24december.date — the last month of a year, following the previous month and preceding the nextoctoberL24october.month — the month that follows the previous month and precedes the next month each yearseptemberL24september.calendar — a month that follows a previous month and precedes a next monthnextL10next.temporal — the thing that follows now in timefollowsL9follows.sequential — to move after something in time with the same order as it happenstimeL0time.dimension — The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.

Used by (8)

sundayL11editionL15interregnumL15lagL16outrage of the weekL19decemberL24octoberL24septemberL24

Relations

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Provenance

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