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How much a parameter changes in each unit of time.

Rate (noun) means: How much a parameter changes in each unit of time. It emerges from parameter, change, unit, time: Change measured against time rather than in total: the same distance moved fast or slow is the same change at different rates, and walls are often crossed by rate, not by amount. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 6, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

rate.speed · forms: rate, rates

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Emergence

from: parameter change unit time
through: Change measured against time rather than in total: the same distance moved fast or slow is the same change at different rates, and walls are often crossed by rate, not by amount.

Chain to foundations

rateL6 rate.speed: How much a parameter changes in each unit of time.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.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.unitL5 unit.measurement: one thing with sizematterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.stateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placeparameterL4 parameter.condition: A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.sizeL2 size.measurement: the space that a thing's matter is inchangeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.energyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.partL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.conditionL3 condition.state: a state of a thing that persists through time in a placetimeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.aloneL3 alone.state: a state where it is in a place and no others are in that placepersistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.singleL4 single.quantity: one thing that is alonepatternL0 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 by — 5 more not shownbuilt frompowerL7power.energy — The rate at which energy moves or changes.arrival timeL12arrival-time.until-wall — The time until drift moves a parameter to a wall of its window, at the current rate.boiling frogL12boiling-frog.drift — A parameter that moves through a window without crossing a wall because the rate of change is too slow to trigger a respsymmetry versus regularity licenceL12symmetry-versus-regularity-licence.licence — A model persists longer when its parameters have a window constrained by symmetry than when they are merely narrow due tgripL13grip.constraint — A constraint is when a parameter's window is narrower than the rate at which the system's parameters drift.layerL14layer.stratum — a set of windows sharing the same parameter and the same rate of driftdecayL15decay.process — drift toward a wall at a rate faster than the work being done to oppose itkicking the can down the roadL15kicking-the-can-down-the-road.upkeep — Maintenance that pushes a parameter further along without changing the rate of drift, making the window narrower ahead.rateL6rate.speed — How much a parameter changes in each unit of time.parameterL4parameter.condition — A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.changeL1change.process — When a thing is not the same after as it was before.unitL5unit.measurement — one thing with sizetimeL0time.dimension — The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.

Used by (13)

powerL7arrival timeL12boiling frogL12symmetry versus regularity licenceL12gripL13layerL14decayL15kicking the can down the roadL15neglectL15resilienceL15keeping the lights onL16scarcityL16burnoutL19

Relations

contrasts-withrating.evaluationhow fast a parameter changes, not a rating of quality; 'the rate of drift' resolved to rating until 2026-10-01

Provenance

author: claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated · date: 2026-10-01 · confidence: 0.9 · source: user report 2026-10-01: power.energy chained through wrong senses