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A device with holes that connects a plug to electricity so that a machine can have energy.

Socket (noun) means: A device with holes that connects a plug to electricity so that a machine can have energy. It emerges from device, holes, connects, plug: A device shaped with holes receives a plug; their touch completes a path along which electricity flows to a machine. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 9, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

socket.electrical · forms: socket

Examples

Emergence

from: device holes connects plug electricity machine energy
through: A device shaped with holes receives a plug; their touch completes a path along which electricity flows to a machine.

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.machineL6 machine.constructed-system: A device made so that energy flows through a structure to do change and persist in a pattern.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.electricityL6 electricity.electrical: A flow of energy that happens when charged parts move through matter in a pattern.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.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.structureL2 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.broughtL6 brought.past-tense: To come to a place carrying a thing that was not there before.definesL6 defines.verb: To make a pattern that establishes the boundary of what a thing is by how it differs from others.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.surroundedL4 surrounded.enclosed: A thing is in a space where boundaries are on all sides around it.socketL9 socket.electrical: A device with holes that connects a plug to electricity so that a machine can have energy.happenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.holesL7 holes.empty-regions: Spaces where matter is not, but which are within or surrounded by matter that defines a boundary.partL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.controlL4 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.chargedL5 charged.electrical: When matter has a pattern of energy that is not the same as before and can change others through contact.deviceL5 device.tool: A thing made of matter in which energy flows through a structure to do some change.settingL3 setting.contextual: A place and time where things happen, with patterns that stay the same through change.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.timeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.establishesL5 establishes.verb: To make a pattern that persists in space and time by setting its boundaries through interaction.plugL8 plug.electrical: A device made to be in a hole of another device, so that through touch energy can flow between the two.sideL3 side.surface: A part of the boundary of a thing.carryingL5 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.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.makeL4 make.verb: Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.matterL1 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 fromsocketL9socket.electrical — A device with holes that connects a plug to electricity so that a machine can have energy.deviceL5device.tool — A thing made of matter in which energy flows through a structure to do some change.holesL7holes.empty-regions — Spaces where matter is not, but which are within or surrounded by matter that defines a boundary.connectsL7connects.verb — When two things are brought together so that a flow between them can happen and persist.plugL8plug.electrical — A device made to be in a hole of another device, so that through touch energy can flow between the two.electricityL6electricity.electrical — A flow of energy that happens when charged parts move through matter in a pattern.machineL6machine.constructed-system — A device made so that energy flows through a structure to do change and persist in a pattern.energyL0energy.capacity — That by which things can be not as they were.

Relations

is-adevice.toola socket is a device specialized for delivering power
contrasts-withplug.electricalmatched pair: the plug enters, the socket receives

Provenance

author: hand · date: 2026-07-31 · confidence: 1.0 · source: repaired from atlas-trap-demo: emergence record contradicted the definition