# alone (state)

a state where it is in a place and no others are in that place

- Computed level: L3 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: lexical  ·  Arena: alone

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [state](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-state.condition), [space](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-space.extent), [others](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-others.distinct-entities)

**Through:** the place have it and does not have others

**Novel properties:**
- only occupancy
- no others

## Examples
- The Voyager 1 probe traveled beyond the heliosphere, with no other spacecraft within millions of kilometers. *(space-exploration)*
- The last known speaker of Ayapaneco, Manuel Segovia, lived in Tantoyuca until his death in 2016. *(linguistics)*
- The Fukushima Daiichi reactor No. 4 building stood without personnel inside during the initial evacuation in March 2011. *(engineering)*

## Used by
- [add](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-add.operation) (L4)
- [bottleneck](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-bottleneck.constraint) (L8)
- [overdue](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-overdue.temporal) (L12)
- [single](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-single.quantity) (L4)

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*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-alone.state.json*  
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