{
  "id": "dependence.condition",
  "term": "dependence",
  "sense": "condition",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 11,
  "arena": "abstract",
  "domain": "window",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "one window's walls set by another's parameters.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "window.range",
      "wall.range-end",
      "sets.grouped"
    ],
    "interaction": "The grouped windows form a structure where one window's opening and range interact, causing its walls to be determined by parameters of another.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "cross-window parameter dependence",
      "externally governed boundaries",
      "structural inter-window coupling"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station's orbit decays at about 2 km per month without reboosts from visiting spacecraft.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Neurons in the visual cortex fail to develop properly in kittens raised with one eye closed during early life.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "Bitcoin transactions rely on the continuous operation of globally distributed nodes to validate and record blocks.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "catch-twenty-two.dependency",
    "ripple-effect.stacked",
    "snowball-effect.stacked-dependency",
    "vicious-cycle.stacked"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "dependence"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.8,
    "sources": [
      "Sample/abstract-concepts-as-ranges.md"
    ],
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "parameter.condition removed (not essential to this specific dependence); sets.grouped and windows.opening added as constitutive; interaction updated to reflect emergent behavior"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-dependence.condition"
}