Definition · Guide
Single Definition
All defined centres hang together in one connected circuit.
How it is read from a chart
Every defined centre in the chart is joined, directly or through other centres, into a single unbroken circuit. Nothing in the definition is stranded from the rest.
Definition is settled by the channels, not chosen: a centre counts as defined when a channel running into it is completed on both ends, and the categories here simply count how many separate groups those defined centres form. That makes definition one of the more mechanical layers of the chart, in the sense that two readers working from the same birth data should arrive at the same answer.
What the system claims it means
The system frames this as self-contained processing: a person it describes as running on their own consistent inner wiring, not reliant on another person to complete a thought.
Because the whole definition is one piece, the system says nothing in the chart is waiting to be bridged, which is the contrast it draws with every other category here.
Register The count of groups is structural. The claim about how such a person processes information or connects with others is the system’s own characterization, reported here in its voice. The archive documents the model and does not evaluate it; what evidence exists for the system’s claims generally is set out at the validation record.
Where definition sits among the other layers
Definition depends on the channels, which in turn depend on which gates are activated, so it is downstream of the parts of the chart that come straight from the calculation. It is upstream of type and authority, both of which the system reads partly from which centres are defined. The full picture is at the definition overview, and the order a chart is read in is at how to read a chart.
The category by other names
The definition categories are one of the places the schools leave the vocabulary alone. Quantum Human Design renames the five types and the six lines and reframes the incarnation cross, but no renaming of the definition categories was located in its own published materials, and none is supplied here. The Gene Keys does not carry definition at all, working from the sixty-four gates recast as a spectrum from Shadow through Gift to Siddhi rather than from the BodyGraph.
Where a school’s treatment could not be verified from its own materials, this archive records that rather than inferring one. The full map is at Divergence.