# yet (temporal)

not now but after now

- Computed level: L2 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: temporal  ·  Arena: EmergenceLexicon

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

**Through:** time.dimension orders moments while difference.relation marks that the present differs from a later moment, together giving the sense of something not occurring up to now.

**Novel properties:**
- pending expectation
- future-oriented negation

## Examples
- The International Space Station will deorbit in 2031, not now but after sixteen more years of operation. *(engineering)*
- Fukushima's Unit 2 reactor reached cold shutdown on December 16, 2011, but fuel debris removal begins in 2024. *(energy)*
- The 2020 U.S. Census undercounted Mississippi by 1.89%, affecting funding allocations that start in 2025. *(institutions)*

## Used by
- [despair](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-despair.state) (L15)
- [ripening](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-ripening.approaching) (L18)

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