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a portion of days that repeat with regular pattern

Week (noun) means: a portion of days that repeat with regular pattern. It emerges from days, regular, pattern, portion: the days repeat with regular pattern and together are a bounded portion of time. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 5, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

week.temporal · forms: week, weeks

Examples

Emergence

from: days regular pattern portion repeats
through: the days repeat with regular pattern and together are a bounded portion of time

Chain to foundations

previousL1 previous.temporal: a thing that is before now in timeportionL3 portion.share: a part of a thing that has its own boundaryspaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.regularL1 regular.frequency: a thing that is the same pattern again over timedifferenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.timeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.partL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.daysL4 days.temporal: a piece of time that differs from the previous piece by a regular patternboundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.weekL5 week.temporal: a portion of days that repeat with regular patternpatternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.pieceL3 piece.portion: a part of a thing that has its own boundarychangeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.repeatsL1 repeats.action: to do a pattern again during time
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Neighborhood

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

used bybuilt fromtuesdayL6tuesday.temporal — the second day of a weekmondayL10monday.temporal — the first day of the week following the previous day in timesundayL11sunday.day — the day of the week that is the last day before the next week beginsfridayL19friday.temporal — the day that follows the fourth day of a weekthursdayL19thursday.temporal — the fourth regular period of a weeksaturdayL20saturday.temporal — the part of time in a week that is after friday and before sundaywednesdayL20wednesday.temporal — the day of a week that follows tuesday and precedes thursdayweekL5week.temporal — a portion of days that repeat with regular patterndaysL4days.temporal — a piece of time that differs from the previous piece by a regular patternregularL1regular.frequency — a thing that is the same pattern again over timepatternL0pattern.regularity — That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.portionL3portion.share — a part of a thing that has its own boundaryrepeatsL1repeats.action — to do a pattern again during time

Used by (7)

tuesdayL6mondayL10sundayL11fridayL19thursdayL19saturdayL20wednesdayL20

Relations

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Provenance

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