receive · communication

to get something that comes to a place

Receive (verb) means: to get something that comes to a place. It emerges from come, get, space: when something moves through space to a location and is acquired by that location. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 6, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

Examples

• Voyager 1 still receives commands from NASA's Deep Space Network, though each signal takes most of a day to reach it. space exploration
• A car radio receives broadcast signals from distant transmitters and turns them back into sound. technology

Emergence

Chain to foundations

Neighborhood

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

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Provenance