# already (temporal)

by now a happen event that was previous

- Computed level: L4 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: temporal  ·  Arena: language

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [previous](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-previous.temporal), [time](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-time.dimension), [happen](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-happen.event-occurrence), [event](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-event.occurrence)

**Through:** the earlier event combines with the present moment to show it occurred before now

**Novel properties:**
- prior occurrence relative to now
- completedness before the present
- temporal anteriority marked

## Examples
- The Voyager 1 probe, launched in 1977, is already beyond the heliosphere, sending data from interstellar space. *(space exploration)*
- By 2023, Nepal had already transitioned most of its government services to digital platforms under its Digital Nepal Framework. *(governance)*
- The 2011 Tohoku earthquake in Japan had already ruptured a 400-kilometer segment of the subduction zone before warnings reached Tokyo. *(geophysics)*

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-already.temporal*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-already.temporal.json*  
*Every definition provably resolves to space, time, energy and pattern.*