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A device made to be in a hole of another device, so that through touch energy can flow between the two.

Plug (noun) means: A device made to be in a hole of another device, so that through touch energy can flow between the two. It emerges from device, holes, touch, flow: A shaped device meets a matching hole; their boundaries touch, opening a path through which energy flows. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 8, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

plug.electrical · forms: plug, plugged, plugs

Examples

Emergence

from: device holes touch flow energy make
through: A shaped device meets a matching hole; their boundaries touch, opening a path through which energy flows.

Chain to foundations

partL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.structureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.definesL6 defines.verb: To make a pattern that establishes the boundary of what a thing is by how it differs from others.settingL3 setting.contextual: A place and time where things happen, with patterns that stay the same through change.flowL3 flow.movement: Motion of many parts of matter together through one place.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.persistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.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.matterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.establishesL5 establishes.verb: To make a pattern that persists in space and time by setting its boundaries through interaction.comeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.boundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.motionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.sideL3 side.surface: A part of the boundary of a thing.happenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.holesL7 holes.empty-regions: Spaces where matter is not, but which are within or surrounded by matter that defines a boundary.othersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.deviceL5 device.tool: A thing made of matter in which energy flows through a structure to do some change.timeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.plugL8 plug.electrical: A device made to be in a hole of another device, so that through touch energy can flow between the two.makeL4 make.verb: Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.touchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.surroundedL4 surrounded.enclosed: A thing is in a space where boundaries are on all sides around it.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.
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Neighborhood

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

used bybuilt fromsocketL9socket.electrical — A device with holes that connects a plug to electricity so that a machine can have energy.plugL8plug.electrical — A device made to be in a hole of another device, so that through touch energy can flow between the two.deviceL5device.tool — A thing made of matter in which energy flows through a structure to do some change.holesL7holes.empty-regions — Spaces where matter is not, but which are within or surrounded by matter that defines a boundary.touchL3touch.together — When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.flowL3flow.movement — Motion of many parts of matter together through one place.energyL0energy.capacity — That by which things can be not as they were.makeL4make.verb — Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.

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Provenance

author: hand · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 1.0