# major (importance)

a thing that is both great in size and important

- Computed level: L11 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: adjective  ·  Arena: lexicon

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [great](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-great.size), [important](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-important.significance)

**Through:** when a thing is both great in size and important, it becomes major

**Novel properties:**
- greater prominence
- higher rank

## Examples
- The 2020 U.S. presidential election saw over 159 million ballots cast, the highest turnout in 120 years. *(politics)*
- The Large Hadron Collider spans 27 kilometers across the France-Switzerland border and discovered the Higgs boson. *(physics)*
- The Amazon Rainforest covers 5.5 million square kilometers and harbors 10% of Earth's known species. *(ecology)*

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