# meeting (social)

people together in a place at a time to interact

- Computed level: L7 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: social  ·  Arena: meeting

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [people](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-people.social), [space](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-space.extent), [time](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-time.dimension), [interaction](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-interaction.process), [interacting](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-interacting.social)

**Through:** people are in a place at a time and interact through mutual touch, changing each other over time

**Novel properties:**
- shared social presence
- reciprocal influence
- temporal co-location

## Examples
- The 1987 Montreal Summit brought together leaders from 24 nations to sign the ozone treaty. *(institutions)*
- Every morning at 9 a.m., nurses gather in Ward B of St. Mary's Hospital for shift handover. *(everyday life)*
- The first Node.js developer conference, JSConf US 2009, drew 400 programmers to Washington, D.C. *(computing)*

## Used by
- [club](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-club.social) (L10)
- [conference](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-conference.social) (L14)
- [council](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-council.governance) (L8)

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