# including (general)

as part of a set

- Computed level: L4 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: english  ·  Arena: including

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [part](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-part.relation), [sets](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-sets.grouped)

**Through:** the part relation is a thing in the set

**Novel properties:**
- explicit inclusion
- membership indication

## Examples
- The International Space Station includes a life support system that recycles water and oxygen for six crew members. *(engineering)*
- The 2020 California wildfires included the August Complex Fire, which burned 1,032 square miles across three national forests. *(environment)*
- Python's standard library includes the 'requests' module for handling HTTP in web scraping scripts. *(computing)*

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