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A parameter whose window is narrower than the ordinary size of drift, requiring more maintenance to keep it within the wall.

precarious.unstable · forms: precarious, precariously, precariousness

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Emergence

from: parameter window drift maintenance wall keep narrow required size
through: drift.aimless pushes the parameter while maintenance.upkeep counteracts it, but because the window.range is narrow.spatial relative to drift.aimless's typical size.measurement, keeping the parameter within the wall.range-end demands more frequent or intense maintenance due to the increased required.obligation.

Chain to foundations

holdL13 hold.physical: keep thing with touch and force so it does not movechangeL1 change.process: When a thing is not the same after as it was before.happenL2 happen.event-occurrence: A change that is at some place during time.distinctL3 distinct.attribute: a thing is not the same as another thinggoL3 go.movement: to move one from a place to another placenumberL6 number.quantity: a mark of many distinct others together in a placekeepL5 keep.maintenance: to make something persist in a place or stateenergyL0 energy.capacity: That by which things can be not as they were.driftL11 drift.aimless: Change of a parameter with nothing that makes it go one way.needL5 need.psychological: a state that diverges from a persistent condition of an objectcontrolL4 control.ability: A pattern that persists through time and sets boundaries for how others can change.flowL3 flow.movement: Motion of many parts of matter together through one place.carryingL5 carrying.transporting: To move with a thing that is in one place and then is in another, where the thing remains in contact and under control.offL2 off.state: when a thing is not here, it is thereoutsideL6 outside.spatial: the space that is not inside a thing's boundarycontactL4 contact.physical: When two things are at the same place in space during time and their boundaries touch.precariousL15 precarious.unstable: A parameter whose window is narrower than the ordinary size of drift, requiring more maintenance to keep it within the wall.extentL3 extent.spatial: how much space matter hasrequiredL6 required.obligation: a condition that is a needinteractionL2 interaction.process: When two things change each other.rangeL3 range.spatial: the space between two boundariesmarksL5 marks.visual: A difference that is a pattern on a surface when a part changes that surface.noneL9 none.quantity: no amount of a thingmakeL4 make.verb: Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.narrowL5 narrow.spatial: Having a small range between boundaries.stateL2 state.condition: a pattern of a thing that persists through time in a placewallL10 wall.range-end: The value of a parameter at which a window ends.broughtL6 brought.past-tense: To come to a place carrying a thing that was not there before.maintenanceL14 maintenance.upkeep: Work that holds the parameters of a thing inside its window.wayL9 way.method: a link of one place to another through spaceamountL8 amount.quantity: the quantity of a thing is a size or a numberquantityL7 quantity.numerical: the size of how many things are in a spacepatternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.comeL3 come.arrive: To move through space until being at some place.surfaceL4 surface.exterior: A part of a boundary that touches a thing and is where the thing is not the thing.windowL7 window.range: The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.parameterL4 parameter.condition: A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.partL1 part.relation: Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.arrangementL3 arrangement.spatial: a structure of parts in space.sizeL2 size.measurement: the space that a thing's matter is inmatterL1 matter.substance: A pattern of energy that is in one place in space through time.linksL8 links.connection: a thing that connects two thingspersistL1 persist.continue: To be the same through time.spaceL0 space.extent: Where things can be: that in which one thing is here and another is there, apart.differenceL1 difference.relation: When one thing is not the same as another; the pattern of one is not the pattern of the other.setsL3 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.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.touchL3 touch.together: When there is no space between the boundaries of two things, and each can change the other.connectsL7 connects.verb: When two things are brought together so that a flow between them can happen and persist.insideL5 inside.spatial: in the space that is within an object's boundaryobjectL4 object.entity: A thing that has a boundary and an arrangement of parts that persists through time in a place.conditionL3 condition.state: a state of a thing that persists through time in a placeboundaryL2 boundary.limit: The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.structureL2 structure.arrangement: The pattern of how the parts of a thing are placed in space.pressL5 press.force: to move an object until it is in contact with a surfacemotionL2 motion.movement: Change of place: a thing is here, and after, it is there.workL3 work.effort: a change that happens when energy moves something through spacenothingL10 nothing.absence: not a thingsmallL4 small.size: a thing that is less extent than most other thingstimeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.forceL12 force.push: a press of matter that results in a change in motion
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Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.

built fromprecariousL15precarious.unstable — A parameter whose window is narrower than the ordinary size of drift, requiring more maintenance to keep it within the wparameterL4parameter.condition — A condition of a thing that can change while the thing persists.windowL7window.range — The range of a parameter within which a thing can be; outside it the thing ends though its parts persist.driftL11drift.aimless — Change of a parameter with nothing that makes it go one way.maintenanceL14maintenance.upkeep — Work that holds the parameters of a thing inside its window.wallL10wall.range-end — The value of a parameter at which a window ends.keepL5keep.maintenance — to make something persist in a place or statenarrowL5narrow.spatial — Having a small range between boundaries.requiredL6required.obligation — a condition that is a needE0 concrete → E14 abstract

Relations

is-afragile.conditionalprecarious implies fragility due to narrow margin
contrasts-withrisk.uncertaintyprecarious involves known narrow window, not unknown risk

Provenance

author: retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507 · date: 2026-07-29 · confidence: 0.8 · source: Sample/hundred-words-six-terms.md