often · temporal
Ask Prometheusmany instances where a pattern recurs over time
Examples
- The International Space Station requires reboosts every few weeks to counteract atmospheric drag and maintain orbit. engineering
- Monarch butterflies migrate every autumn from North America to central Mexico, covering up to 3,000 miles. biology
- The Linux kernel receives new patch releases every few months, often fixing security flaws and driver issues. computing
Emergence
through: a pattern regularity persists through time, repeating via regular frequency to produce multiple occurrences.
- temporal recurrence
- repeated pattern instances
- frequency over time
Chain to foundations
as tree
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
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Relations
| is-a | regular.frequency | often is a kind of regular frequency |
| contrasts-with | never.temporal | often is opposite of never |