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A setting where an arrangement of boundaries persists as a place.
Examples
- The International Space Station maintains a pressurized hull at 1 atm, shielding astronauts from vacuum. engineering
- Yellowstone's geothermal basins persist as hydrothermal pools within caldera boundaries shaped by volcanic activity. geology
- A beehive in a hollow oak in Epping Forest retains a stable internal temperature despite outside frost. biology
Emergence
through: A setting and an arrangement of boundaries together persist as a place.
- enduring spatial containment
- localized persistence
- shared continuity of place
Chain to foundations
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Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
Used by (3)
Relations
| is-a | setting.contextual | is-a |