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more than few and less than many

Several (adjective) means: more than few and less than many. It emerges from number, part: number quantity join part parts and show more than few and less than many. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 7, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

several.quantity · forms: several

Examples

Emergence

from: number part
through: number quantity join part parts and show more than few and less than many

Chain to foundations

touchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.severalL7 several.quantity: more than few and less than manydifferenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.energyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.partL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.surfaceL4 surface.exterior: A part of a boundary that touches a thing and is where the thing is not the thing.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.timeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.boundaryL2 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.distinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thingmarksL5 marks.visual: A difference that is a pattern on a surface when a part changes that surface.numberL6 number.quantity: a mark of many distinct others together in a placechangeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.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.
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Neighborhood

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

used bybuilt fromvariousL8various.diverse — different and several itemstourL18tour.travel — a travel when someone goes to several locations along a trackharmonyL19harmony.relational — Several systems whose windows overlap across the region they jointly occupy, so that each system's ordinary drift keeps proportionL19proportion.relation — the relation among several parameters that keeps all of their windows open at onceseveralL7several.quantity — more than few and less than manynumberL6number.quantity — a mark of many distinct others together in a placepartL1part.relation — Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.

Used by (4)

variousL8tourL18harmonyL19proportionL19

Relations

is-aquantity.numericalis-a

Provenance

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