previous · temporal

a thing that is before now in time

Previous (adjective) means: a thing that is before now in time. It emerges from time, pattern: the ordering of moments in the time dimension places a thing earlier than the present. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 1, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

Examples

• The Voyager 1 probe transmitted data from interstellar space 45 years after its 1977 launch. space exploration
• The U.S. Constitution remained in force through the Civil War, amendments, and 235 years of societal change. institutions
• The 4.2-billion-year-old zircon crystal from Jack Hills, Australia, predates most Earth rocks. geology

Emergence

Chain to foundations

Neighborhood

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

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