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A parameter whose window is narrower than the ordinary size of drift, requiring more maintenance to keep it within the wall.

Precarious (adjective) means: A parameter whose window is narrower than the ordinary size of drift, requiring more maintenance to keep it within the wall. It emerges from parameter, window, drift, maintenance: drift.aimless pushes the parameter while maintenance.upkeep counteracts it, but because the window.range is narrow.spatial relative to drift.aimless's typical size.measurement, keeping the parameter within the wall.range-end demands more frequent or intense maintenance due to the increased required.obligation. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 15, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

precarious.unstable · forms: precarious, precariously, precariousness

Examples

Emergence

from: parameter window drift maintenance wall keep narrow required size
through: drift.aimless pushes the parameter while maintenance.upkeep counteracts it, but because the window.range is narrow.spatial relative to drift.aimless's typical size.measurement, keeping the parameter within the wall.range-end demands more frequent or intense maintenance due to the increased required.obligation.

Chain to foundations

valueL7 value.magnitude: The number a parameter has at a time.nothingL10 nothing.absence: not a thingothersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.arrangementL3 arrangement.spatial: a structure of parts in space.precariousL15 precarious.unstable: A parameter whose window is narrower than the ordinary size of drift, requiring more maintenance to keep it within the wall.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 thingsconnectsL7 connects.verb: When two things are brought together so that a flow between them can happen and persist.outsideL6 outside.spatial: the space that is not inside a thing's boundaryforceL12 force.push: a press of matter that results in a change in motionneedL5 need.psychological: a state that diverges from a persistent condition of an objectflowL3 flow.movement: Motion of many parts of matter together through one place.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.broughtL6 brought.past-tense: To come to a place carrying a thing that was not there before.motionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.holdL13 hold.physical: keep thing with touch and force so it does not moveextentL3 extent.spatial: how much space matter hasmatterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.contactL4 contact.physical: When two things are at the same place in space during time and their boundaries touch.noneL9 none.quantity: no amount of a thinghappenL2 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.linksL8 links.connection: a thing that connects two thingsmakeL4 make.verb: Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.goL3 go.movement: to move one from a place to another placecomeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.surfaceL4 surface.exterior: A part of a boundary that touches a thing and is where the thing is not the thing.marksL5 marks.visual: A difference that is a pattern on a surface when a part changes that surface.wallL8 wall.range-end: The value of a parameter at which a window ends.narrowL5 narrow.spatial: Having a small range between boundaries.stateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placequantityL7 quantity.numerical: the size of how many things are in a spacekeepL5 keep.maintenance: to make something persist in a place or statenumberL6 number.quantity: a mark of many distinct others together in a placeenergyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.boundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.distinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thinginsideL5 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.pressL5 press.force: to move an object until it is in contact with a surfaceworkL3 work.effort: a change that happens when energy moves something through spacecarryingL5 carrying.transporting: To move with a thing that is in one place and then is in another, where the thing remains in contact.persistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.wayL9 way.method: a link of one place to another through spaceoffL2 off.state: when a thing is not here, it is theredriftL11 drift.aimless: Change of a parameter with nothing that makes it go one way.parameterL4 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.sizeL2 size.measurement: the space that a thing's matter is inmaintenanceL14 maintenance.upkeep: Work that holds the parameters of a thing inside its window.conditionL3 condition.state: a state of a thing that persists through time in a placedifferenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.objectL4 object.entity: A thing that has a boundary and an arrangement of parts that persists through time in a place.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.amountL8 amount.quantity: the quantity of a thing is a size or a numbertouchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.requiredL6 required.obligation: a condition that is a needstructureL2 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.
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Neighborhood

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

built from — 1 more not shownprecariousL15precarious.unstable — A parameter whose window is narrower than the ordinary size of drift, requiring more maintenance to keep it within the wparameterL4parameter.condition — A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.windowL7window.range — The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.driftL11drift.aimless — Change of a parameter with nothing that makes it go one way.maintenanceL14maintenance.upkeep — Work that holds the parameters of a thing inside its window.wallL8wall.range-end — The value of a parameter at which a window ends.keepL5keep.maintenance — to make something persist in a place or statenarrowL5narrow.spatial — Having a small range between boundaries.requiredL6required.obligation — a condition that is a need

Relations

is-afragile.conditionalprecarious implies fragility due to narrow margin
contrasts-withrisk.uncertaintyprecarious involves known narrow window, not unknown risk

Provenance

author: retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507 · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 0.8 · source: Sample/hundred-words-six-terms.md