establishes · verb
To make a pattern that persists in space and time by setting its boundaries through interaction.
Examples
- The Mississippi River established its current course after the 1927 flood bypassed levees and carved new channels. geography
- The Linux kernel established stable API patterns through two decades of developer interactions and version releases. computing
- The 1951 New York City building codes established fire escape requirements after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory disaster. institutions
Emergence
through: Pattern.regularity and boundary.limit are formed through interaction.process, allowing something to persist.continue in space and time.
- self-maintaining structure
- spatiotemporal coherence
- emergent stability
Chain to foundations
as tree
- establishesL5
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
Used by (2)
Relations
| enables | defines.verb | establishing sets conditions for defining |