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the side of a place that is up on a map

North (noun) means: the side of a place that is up on a map. It emerges from side, map, space: the side and the map together orient relative to the top of a spatial representation. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 13, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

north.direction · forms: north, norths

Examples

Emergence

from: side map space
through: the side and the map together orient relative to the top of a spatial representation

Chain to foundations

extentL3 extent.spatial: how much space matter haspeopleL6 people.social: a group of distinct entities that persist over time and interact through mutual touchmarksL5 marks.visual: A difference that is a pattern on a surface when a part changes that surface.northL13 north.direction: the side of a place that is up on a maptimeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.happenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.matterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.interactingL4 interacting.social: when two things change each other while touchinginformationL6 information.knowledge: a pattern of marks that are differencestouchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.distinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thingsideL3 side.surface: A part of the boundary of a thing.patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.putL3 put.placement: to move something into a placeboundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.persistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.interactionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.nameL7 name.identifier: information that makes a thing different from othersenergyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.motionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.entitiesL4 entities.object: things that are each distinct from other thingssettingL3 setting.contextual: A place and time where things happen, with patterns that stay the same through change.partL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.othersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.seeL6 see.visual: change when matter interacts with marks visible in space extentsetsL3 sets.grouped: A pattern of many things that are each different from the others but are bounded together by what is the same about them.siteL4 site.location: a place that has boundaries and where things happendifferenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.structureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.groupsL5 groups.collection: a set of entity that are together because each entity has patternmapL8 map.spatial: a structure puts name of place in space so a person can see where each place issurfaceL4 surface.exterior: A part of a boundary that touches a thing and is where the thing is not the thing.
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Neighborhood

Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.

used bybuilt fromwestL14west.direction — the side of a place together with the north direction is a specific orientationleftL15left.direction — a side of a place that is to the west when north is forwardnorth-south divideL17north-south-divide.regional — A collective self that divides into an in-group and an out-group along a line between its north and its south, each readnorthL13north.direction — the side of a place that is up on a mapsideL3side.surface — A part of the boundary of a thing.mapL8map.spatial — a structure puts name of place in space so a person can see where each place isspaceL0space.extent — Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.

Used by (3)

westL14leftL15north-south divideL17

Relations

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Provenance

author: openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 0.6