# late (temporal)

after previous usual time

- Computed level: L3 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: time.dimension  ·  Arena: temporal

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [previous](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-previous.temporal), [time](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-time.dimension), [usual](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-usual.common)

**Through:** The usual occurrence of a thing in time is expected; when it happens after that expected time, it is late.

**Novel properties:**
- temporal deviation
- expectation violation
- delay relative to norm

## Examples
- The 2020 Tokyo Olympics began on July 23, 2021, one year after the scheduled start date due to the pandemic. *(institutions)*
- Halley's Comet appeared in 1986, nine years after its previous observed passage in 1977. *(astronomy)*
- The New Horizons spacecraft reached Pluto in 2015, nine and a half years after its 2006 launch. *(engineering)*

## Used by
- [lag](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-lag.temporal) (L15)

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-late.temporal*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-late.temporal.json*  
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