# year (time)

a length of time that persists about three hundred sixty five days

- Computed level: L9 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: draft  ·  Domain: year  ·  Arena: EmergenceLexicon

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [time](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-time.dimension), [change](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-change.process)

**Through:** time passes while the pattern of days repeats to complete a full cycle

**Novel properties:**
- patterned cycle
- approximate length
- calendar unit

## Examples
- Halley's Comet returns every 76 years, last seen in 1986 and next expected in 2061. *(astronomy)*
- The International Space Station completed 5,760 orbits around Earth in one year as of 2023. *(engineering)*
- The fiscal year 2020 in the United States ran from October 1, 2019, to September 30, 2020. *(institutions)*

## Used by
- [annual](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-annual.temporal) (L10)
- [christmas](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-christmas.holiday) (L19)
- [december](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-december.date) (L14)
- [february](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-february.calendar) (L14)
- [june](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-june.month) (L14)
- [month](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-month.temporal) (L13)
- [october](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-october.month) (L14)
- [summer](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-summer.season) (L21)

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-year.time*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-year.time.json*  
*Every definition provably resolves to space, time, energy and pattern.*