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when a thing is added to another thing

Plus (noun) means: when a thing is added to another thing. It emerges from add, difference: add operation adds one thing to another. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 5, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

plus.addition · forms: plus, pluses

Examples

Emergence

from: add difference
through: add operation adds one thing to another

Chain to foundations

motionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.addL4 add.operation: to put parts together so that there is more than one part alonedifferenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.partL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.structureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.timeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.aloneL3 alone.state: a state where it is in a place and no others are in that placestateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placepatternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.plusL5 plus.addition: when a thing is added to another thingputL3 put.placement: to move something into a placeothersL2 others.distinct-entities: Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.changeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.persistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.
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Neighborhood

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

built fromplusL5plus.addition — when a thing is added to another thingaddL4add.operation — to put parts together so that there is more than one part alonedifferenceL1difference.relation — When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.

Relations

is-aadd.operation

Provenance

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