overall · general

all parts together as a whole

Overall (adjective) means: all parts together as a whole. It emerges from whole, total: the whole and the total are taken together, producing a sense of everything taken as one. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 8, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

Examples

• The 2003 Northeast Blackout affected 50 million people when a single overloaded transmission line in Ohio failed, cascading into a regional grid collapse. engineering
• The human genome contains 3.2 billion base pairs, but only about 1.5% codes for proteins, with regulatory functions emerging from the whole sequence. biology
• In 2008, Lehman Brothers' bankruptcy revealed that the overall risk in the mortgage-backed securities market exceeded the sum of its rated parts. economics

Emergence

Chain to foundations

Neighborhood

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

Relations

Provenance