at capacity · threshold
A parameter has reached the wall of its window, where no further increase can occur without ending the thing’s current state.
ordinarily means: completely full and unable to take more.
Examples
- The Fukushima Daiichi reactors automatically scrammed when neutron flux exceeded design limits, halting the chain reaction. engineering
- The Aral Sea shrank below ecological tipping points after rivers feeding it were fully diverted for Soviet irrigation. environment
- The U.S. debt ceiling was reached in January 2023, legally capping Treasury’s borrowing authority. economics
Emergence
Chain to foundations
as tree
- at capacityL13
- wallL10
- windowL7
- parameterL4
- rangeL3
- boundaryL2 (shown above)
- persistL1 (shown above)
- changeL1 (shown above)
- outsideL6
- partL1 (shown above)
- parameterL4 (shown above)
- boundaryL2 (shown above)
- changeL1 (shown above)
- windowL7
- windowL7 (shown above)
- parameterL4 (shown above)
- wallL10
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.