# transferred (exchange)

when a thing is given and put into a new place

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

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [give](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-give.transfer), [put](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-put.placement), [given](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-given.premise), [new](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-new.recent), [space](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-space.extent)

**Through:** The act of giving transfers possession while the act of placing assigns a new spatial location, together effecting relocation.

**Novel properties:**
- relocation across space
- change of possession
- arrival in new context

## Examples
- The 2011 Tohoku earthquake shifted Japan's coastline by 4 meters, moving land into the Pacific Ocean. *(geophysics)*
- In 1977, the Soviet Union transferred 1.5 million books from Leningrad's public libraries to state archives. *(institutions)*
- The Ethereum blockchain recorded 1,247 ETH transferred from wallet 0x74... to 0x8a... during the 2020 DeFi surge. *(computing)*

## Used by
- [gift](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-gift.present) (L18)
- [purchase](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-purchase.economic) (L17)
- [trade](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-trade.economic) (L17)
- [wireless](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wireless.electrical) (L11)

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-transferred.exchange*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-transferred.exchange.json*  
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