almost · approximation
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- The Hubble Space Telescope's mirror was polished to within 10 nanometers of the correct shape, but the error caused significant image distortion. engineering
- In 2003, the Northeast Blackout spread because grid operators were unaware voltage levels were almost critical until cascading failure began. institutions
- Water boils at 99.97°C on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau due to lower atmospheric pressure, almost but not quite 100°C. physics
Emergence
through: exactness and nearness combine to form a state that is close to precision but not strictly exact
- proximity to exactness
- tolerance for slight deviation
- approximate alignment
Chain to foundations
as tree
- almostL4
- justL2
- differenceL1
- patternL0
- patternL0 (shown above)
- differenceL1
- nearL2
- spaceL0
- differenceL1 (shown above)
- exactL3
- differenceL1 (shown above)
- justL2 (shown above)
- justL2
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
Relations
| contrasts-with | just.exact | contrasts-with |