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when two or more entities connect each other

Relation (noun) means: when two or more entities connect each other. It emerges from entities, interaction, connects: entities interact and connect each other through a persistent link that enables mutual influence or flow. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 8, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

relation.association · forms: relation, relations

Examples

Emergence

from: entities interaction connects
through: entities interact and connect each other through a persistent link that enables mutual influence or flow

Chain to foundations

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.connectsL7 connects.verb: When two things are brought together so that a flow between them can happen and persist.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.relationL8 relation.association: when two or more entities connect each otherflowL3 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.contactL4 contact.physical: When two things are at the same place in space during time and their boundaries touch.matterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.happenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.partL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.comeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.entitiesL4 entities.object: things that are each distinct from other thingsboundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.energyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.distinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thingtimeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.persistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.touchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.structureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.carryingL5 carrying.transporting: To move with a thing that is in one place and then is in another, where the thing remains in contact.
full chain as text (71 steps)

Neighborhood

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

used bybuilt fromcompareL9compare.relation — to be a relation that identifies where two things differ or are alikeassociationL10association.relation — A relation that connects things because they have the same pattern.ratioL10ratio.proportion — a relation that compares one quantity to anotherproportionL18proportion.relation — the relation among several parameters that keeps all of their windows open at oncesummaryL18summary.text — a written text that condenses the associated parts of a larger whole into a concise spatial arrangement.relationL8relation.association — when two or more entities connect each otherentitiesL4entities.object — things that are each distinct from other thingsinteractionL2interaction.process — When two things change each other.connectsL7connects.verb — When two things are brought together so that a flow between them can happen and persist.

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compareL9associationL10ratioL10proportionL18summaryL18

Relations

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Provenance

author: openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 0.6