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a thing that is the same pattern again over time

Regular (adjective) means: a thing that is the same pattern again over time. It emerges from pattern, time: the pattern is again in time. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 1, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

regular.frequency · forms: regular, regularly

Examples

Emergence

from: pattern time
through: the pattern is again in time

Chain to foundations

patternL0 pattern.regularity: That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.regularL1 regular.frequency: a thing that is the same pattern again over timetimeL0 time.dimension: The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.
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Neighborhood

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

used by — 36 more not shownbuilt fromalwaysL2always.temporal — at every timeerrorL2error.mistake — a difference that is not regularevolutionL2evolution.biological — change that persists through time and differs from before, with regular differences that repeat over timeoftenL2often.temporal — many instances where a pattern recurs over timeperL2per.ratio — for eachusualL2usual.common — a thing that is regular in its occurrence over timecommonL3common.general — a thing that is regular and is among many otherslawL3law.rule — a regular pattern that is what will happen when a thing is with another thingregularL1regular.frequency — a thing that is the same pattern again over timepatternL0pattern.regularity — That which is the same again: what is here is also there, or what is now was also before.timeL0time.dimension — The before and after of things: that in which a thing can be, and then not be the same.

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Provenance

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