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a portion of substance with a distinct boundary and a hard form

Rock (noun) means: a portion of substance with a distinct boundary and a hard form. It emerges from matter, boundary, distinct, form: the substance and its boundary together maintain a fixed shape and resist deformation. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 14, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

rock.material · forms: rock, rocked, rocking, rocks

Examples

Emergence

from: matter boundary distinct form hard piece portion substance
through: the substance and its boundary together maintain a fixed shape and resist deformation

Chain to foundations

touchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.energyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.smallL4 small.size: a thing that is less extent than most other thingsdriftL11 drift.aimless: Change of a parameter with nothing that makes it go one way.contactL4 contact.physical: When two things are at the same place in space during time and their boundaries touch.boundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.windowL7 window.range: The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.substanceL12 substance.material: what remains through the drift a window toleratesparameterL4 parameter.condition: A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.flowL3 flow.movement: Motion of many parts of matter together through one place.setsL3 sets.grouped: A pattern of many things that are each different from the others but are bounded together by what is the same about them.arrangementL3 arrangement.spatial: a structure of parts in space.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.persistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.motionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.amountL8 amount.quantity: the quantity of a thing is a size or a numberstructureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.connectsL7 connects.verb: When two things are brought together so that a flow between them can happen and persist.linksL8 links.connection: a thing that connects two thingshardL13 hard.difficulty: a state of a substance that does not change when work is donebroughtL6 brought.past-tense: To come to a place carrying a thing that was not there before.surfaceL4 surface.exterior: A part of a boundary that touches a thing and is where the thing is not the thing.goL3 go.movement: to move one from a place to another placenothingL10 nothing.absence: not a thingsizeL2 size.measurement: the space that a thing's matter is inwayL9 way.method: a link of one place to another through spacechangeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.marksL5 marks.visual: A difference that is a pattern on a surface when a part changes that surface.outsideL6 outside.spatial: the space that is not inside a thing's boundaryhappenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.workL3 work.effort: a change that happens when energy moves something through spacestateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placeportionL3 portion.share: a part of a thing that has its own boundarypartL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.insideL5 inside.spatial: in the space that is within an object's boundarycontrolL4 control.ability: A pattern that persists through time and sets boundaries for how others can change.comeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.noneL9 none.quantity: no amount of a thingpieceL3 piece.portion: a part of a thing that has its own boundaryquantityL7 quantity.numerical: the size of how many things are in a spaceconditionL3 condition.state: a state of a thing that persists through time in a placeobjectL4 object.entity: A thing that has a boundary and an arrangement of parts that persists through time in a place.offL2 off.state: when a thing is not here, it is therespaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.formL9 form.shape: The shape of the window, as opposed to whatever is occupying it.timeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.narrowL5 narrow.spatial: Having a small range between boundaries.distinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thingcarryingL5 carrying.transporting: To move with a thing that is in one place and then is in another, where the thing remains in contact and under control.rangeL3 range.spatial: the space between two boundariesrockL14 rock.material: a portion of substance with a distinct boundary and a hard formnumberL6 number.quantity: a mark of many distinct others together in a placeothersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.makeL4 make.verb: Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.extentL3 extent.spatial: how much space matter hasmatterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.
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Neighborhood

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

built fromrockL14rock.material — a portion of substance with a distinct boundary and a hard formmatterL1matter.substance — A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.boundaryL2boundary.limit — The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.distinctL3distinct.attribute — a thing is not the same as another thingformL9form.shape — The shape of the window, as opposed to whatever is occupying it.hardL13hard.difficulty — a state of a substance that does not change when work is donepieceL3piece.portion — a part of a thing that has its own boundaryportionL3portion.share — a part of a thing that has its own boundarysubstanceL12substance.material — what remains through the drift a window tolerates

Relations

is-asubstance.materialrock is a type of material
is-aphysical.materialrock is physical matter

Provenance

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