# overall (general)

all parts together as a whole

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

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [whole](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-whole.complete), [total](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-total.quantity)

**Through:** the whole and the total are taken together, producing a sense of everything taken as one

**Novel properties:**
- global perspective
- summary view

## Examples
- The 2003 Northeast Blackout affected 50 million people when a single overloaded transmission line in Ohio failed, cascading into a regional grid collapse. *(engineering)*
- The human genome contains 3.2 billion base pairs, but only about 1.5% codes for proteins, with regulatory functions emerging from the whole sequence. *(biology)*
- In 2008, Lehman Brothers' bankruptcy revealed that the overall risk in the mortgage-backed securities market exceeded the sum of its rated parts. *(economics)*

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*Every definition provably resolves to space, time, energy and pattern.*