# mature (development)

when a thing has more growth and age than most things and shows big size

- Computed level: L8 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: emergence  ·  Arena: mature

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [growth](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-growth.development), [age](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-age.temporal), [big](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-big.size), [show](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-show.visual), [size](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-size.measurement)

**Through:** growth adds matter in space through time and age measures how long that change persists, together they produce a visible magnitude that indicates developed extent

**Novel properties:**
- visible maturity
- developed extent
- comparative physical prominence

## Examples
- Sequoia National Park's General Sherman tree reaches 83 meters and is over 2,000 years old, the largest known living tree by volume. *(biology)*
- The International Space Station reached full operational capacity in 2011 after a decade of assembly and continuous human habitation. *(engineering)*
- IBM, founded in 1911, grew to over 350,000 employees by the 1980s, dominating mainframe computing for decades. *(economics)*

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