lake · geographic
Ask PrometheusA region of space containing water and enclosed by a boundary that holds the water within.
Lake (noun) means: A region of space containing water and enclosed by a boundary that holds the water within. It emerges from water, region, boundary, liquid: The boundary retains the liquid water within the spatial region, preventing dispersal. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 16, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).
Examples
- Lake Superior contains 12,100 cubic kilometers of water within its rocky shoreline boundary. geography
- The Aral Sea shrank by 90% after rivers feeding it were diverted for irrigation. environment
- Lake Vostok remains liquid under 4 kilometers of Antarctic ice due to geothermal pressure. geophysics
Emergence
through: The boundary retains the liquid water within the spatial region, preventing dispersal.
- contained body of water
- stable water boundary interface
- persistent spatial localization of water
Chain to foundations
full chain as text (339 steps)
- lakeL16
- waterL14
- regionL6
- boundaryL2
- liquidL15
- limitL14
- wallL8
- parameterL4
- driftL11
- applicationL10
- useL6
- purposeL9
- goalL6
- stateL2
- differenceL1
- needL5
- stateL2
- differenceL1
- persistL1
- conditionL3
- objectL4
- workL3
- meaningL8
- informationL6
- differenceL1
- marksL5
- patternL0
- differenceL1
- stateL2
- knowledgeL7
- patternL0
- informationL6
- goalL6
- processL4
- specificL3
- justL2
- differenceL1
- othersL2
- applyingL8
- forceL12
- holdL13
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
Relations
| is-a | region.spatial | a lake is a type of spatial region |