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the use of energy to make a change in something

Effort (noun) means: the use of energy to make a change in something. It emerges from energy, change, make, use: energy is applied through use to enable making, resulting in change. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 7, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

effort.general · forms: effort, efforts

Examples

Emergence

from: energy change make use
through: energy is applied through use to enable making, resulting in change.

Chain to foundations

makeL4 make.verb: Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.deviceL5 device.tool: A thing made of matter in which energy flows through a structure to do some change.effortL7 effort.general: the use of energy to make a change in somethingactL3 act.deed: do somethingmotionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.timeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.useL6 use.application: to make something change by acting on itstructureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.partL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.flowL3 flow.movement: Motion of many parts of matter together through one place.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.comeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.persistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.matterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.energyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.
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Neighborhood

Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.

used bybuilt fromstudyL11study.learning — a process of applying effort to information in order to learnfactor of safetyL15factor-of-safety.margin — a parameter whose window is narrower than the distance between the performance wall and the existence wall, maintained bpowerL19power.energy — the capacity to produce change through movement in space over timeeffortL7effort.general — the use of energy to make a change in somethingenergyL0energy.capacity — That by which things can be not as they were.changeL1change.process — When a thing is not the same after as it was before.makeL4make.verb — Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.useL6use.application — to make something change by acting on it

Used by (3)

studyL11factor of safetyL15powerL19

Relations

is-awork.effortis-a

Provenance

author: openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 0.6