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a regular portion of time

Second (noun) means: a regular portion of time. It emerges from time, regular, portion: time and regular together with a portion make a distinct repeat. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 4, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

second.temporal · forms: second, seconds

Examples

Emergence

from: time regular portion
through: time and regular together with a portion make a distinct repeat

Chain to foundations

partL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.timeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.portionL3 portion.share: a part of a thing that has its own boundarysecondL4 second.temporal: a regular portion of timedifferenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.regularL1 regular.frequency: a thing that is the same pattern again over timeboundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.patternL0 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 bybuilt fromdoubleL5double.quantity — make another thing that is a second of the firstminutesL6minutes.temporal — a part of time that is a regular portion longer than a secondtuesdayL6tuesday.temporal — the second day of a weekredundancyL12redundancy.engineering — A second system whose parameter has a window that overlaps the first, so that drift in the parameter can leave one windothirdL13third.ordinal — the position in a sequence that follows second and precedes fourcuspL14cusp.threshold — a parameter whose window overlaps with another, where the crossing leads into the second rather than ending the firstfebruaryL14february.calendar — the month that is the second month of the yearsecondL4second.temporal — a regular portion of timetimeL0time.dimension — The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.regularL1regular.frequency — a thing that is the same pattern again over timeportionL3portion.share — a part of a thing that has its own boundary

Used by (7)

doubleL5minutesL6tuesdayL6redundancyL12thirdL13cuspL14februaryL14

Relations

is-atime.dimensionis-a

Provenance

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