# unoccupied (spatial)

a place where no thing occupies

- Computed level: L9 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: language  ·  Arena: addition

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [occupied](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-occupied.spatial), [holes](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-holes.empty-regions), [space](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-space.extent)

**Through:** the occupied condition is not, so the region contains no thing

**Novel properties:**
- absence of matter
- spatial vacancy
- bound potential for occupation

## Examples
- The International Space Station's docking port remained unoccupied for 18 months after Soyuz MS-19 undocked in December 2021. *(engineering)*
- The center seat at the UN Security Council table sat unoccupied during the 2022 session when Russia's delegation was absent. *(institutions)*
- A vacuum chamber at CERN's Antiproton Decelerator reaches pressures below 10⁻¹² atm, making it one of Earth's most unoccupied volumes. *(physics)*

## Used by
- [full](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-full.state) (L10)
- [overdue](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-overdue.temporal) (L12)
- [potential](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-potential.capacity) (L18)

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