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ki'ma · W114

ki'ma · liquid (material state) · ⏳

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Domain physical / chemistry
Class material quality / state
Type compound
Register standard
First use pending corpus attestation

Composition

ki (motion/flow/change) + ma (matter) = moving/flowing matter. The apostrophe marks ki as a discriminator on the base ma: the kind of matter defined by flowing.

Definition

liquid; matter in its flowing, mobile state; the physical state of matter with fixed volume but no fixed shape, that flows under gravity.

Notes

Contrast with ma-ki (water/flowing matter, MAT-002): ma-ki is the specific substance water — the domain-primitive compound for the hydrogen-oxygen fluid. ki'ma is the general state — any matter in the liquid phase, regardless of substance. Mercury, molten iron, and water at room temperature are all ki'ma; only the last is ma-ki. The apostrophe placement distinguishes direction of composition: ki'ma (ki discriminates ma = flowing-kind-of-matter) vs ma-ki (ma modified by ki = the matter whose nature is flow = water).

su'ma (W113: solid), no-su'ma (W115: gas), ma-ki (water, distinct), ki (primitive), ma (primitive)

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