# article (written)

a piece of text that reports on a subject

- Computed level: L9 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: written  ·  Arena: article

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [text](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-text.written), [subject](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-subject.entity), [piece](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-piece.portion), [report](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-report.information)

**Through:** the text reports information about the subject

**Novel properties:**
- thematic coherence
- informational report
- authored structure

## Examples
- The New York Times published an article detailing the 2021 Facebook outage lasting six hours. *(media)*
- A 2018 article in Nature reported measurements from the Parker Solar Probe’s first close approach to the Sun. *(science)*
- Wikipedia’s article on the Chernobyl disaster was edited over 10,000 times by 2020. *(computing)*

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