{
  "id": "rate.speed",
  "term": "rate",
  "sense": "speed",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 6,
  "domain": "systems",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "How much a parameter changes in each unit of time.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "parameter.condition",
      "change.process",
      "unit.measurement",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "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.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "change read per unit of time",
      "the difference between how much and how fast",
      "what drift and maintenance are compared by"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "A car at 100 km/h and one at 50 km/h cover the same 100 km; only the first arrives in an hour.",
      "domain": "physics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "rating.evaluation",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "how fast a parameter changes, not a rating of quality; 'the rate of drift' resolved to rating until 2026-10-01"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "arrival-time.until-wall",
    "boiling-frog.drift",
    "burnout.capacity",
    "decay.process",
    "grip.constraint",
    "keeping-the-lights-on.upkeep",
    "kicking-the-can-down-the-road.upkeep",
    "layer.stratum",
    "neglect.omission",
    "power.energy",
    "resilience.recovery-rate",
    "scarcity.condition",
    "symmetry-versus-regularity-licence.licence"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "rate",
    "rates"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated",
    "date": "2026-10-01",
    "confidence": 0.9,
    "sources": [
      "user report 2026-10-01: power.energy chained through wrong senses"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-rate.speed"
}