# recent (temporal)

a thing that happened since a little time before now

- Computed level: L5 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: everyday  ·  Arena: emergence

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [happen](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-happen.event-occurrence), [since](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-since.temporal), [little](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-little.size), [time](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-time.dimension)

**Through:** when an event occurs after a brief interval preceding now, we treat it as recent

**Novel properties:**
- proximity to present
- bounded recency
- measured by small duration

## Examples
- The James Webb Space Telescope detected light from the galaxy GLASS-z13, formed about 13.3 billion years ago, just 400 million years after the Big Bang. *(astronomy)*
- In 2023, the ChatGPT system updated its model weights to version GPT-4, reflecting changes trained on data up to late 2022. *(computing)*
- The 2021 eruption of the Cumbre Vieja volcano on La Palma began on September 19 and lasted 85 days, reshaping the island’s geology. *(geology)*

## Used by
- [young](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-young.age) (L6)

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*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-recent.temporal.json*  
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