# common (general)

a thing that is regular and is among many others

- Computed level: L3 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: everyday  ·  Arena: common.general

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

**Through:** regular patterns appear in many distinct entities, creating a shared occurrence

**Novel properties:**
- shared prevalence
- typicality across group

## Examples
- Water boils at 100°C at sea level under standard atmospheric pressure. *(physics)*
- The human genome contains about 20,000 protein-coding genes, most shared across individuals. *(biology)*
- The letter 'e' appears more frequently than any other letter in English text. *(linguistics)*

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