unit · measurement
Ask Prometheusone thing with size
Unit (noun) means: one thing with size. It emerges from single, size: The single and the size together form a thing. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 5, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).
Examples
- The International Prototype of the Kilogram, a platinum-iridium cylinder in Paris, defined mass for 130 years. physics
- The U.S. customary system defines a foot as exactly 0.3048 meters since 1959. engineering
- The daily market price of Bitcoin fluctuates, but each unit represents one cryptocurrency token on the blockchain. economics
Emergence
through: The single and the size together form a thing
- standard amount
- identifiable piece
Chain to foundations
full chain as text (27 steps)
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.