pre · temporal

it is before something in time

Pre (adjective) means: it is before something in time. It emerges from previous, time: previous.temporal and time.dimension together are before something. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 2, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

Examples

• The launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957 preceded the first human spaceflight by four years. history
• In the 2020 U.S. presidential election, mail-in ballots were counted after Election Day but before the final certification. institutions
• The Cretaceous period ended 66 million years ago, before the rise of mammalian dominance. geology

Emergence

Chain to foundations

Neighborhood

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

Relations

Provenance