{
  "id": "across.spatial",
  "term": "across",
  "sense": "spatial",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 14,
  "arena": "across",
  "domain": "spatial",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "from one side of a space to the other side",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "space.extent",
      "direction.spatial",
      "side.surface",
      "relevance.core"
    ],
    "interaction": "the direction that runs over a space joins opposite sides of that space, guided by a parameter whose drift establishes salience",
    "novel_properties": [
      "spanning relation",
      "transverse orientation",
      "contextual alignment"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Øresund Bridge connects Copenhagen to Malmö, spanning 16 kilometers across the sea at the narrowest point of the strait.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Monarch butterflies migrate across North America, flying from Canada to central Mexico each autumn.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 1969 Apollo 11 mission sent astronauts across 384,400 kilometers of space to land on the Moon.",
      "domain": "physics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "direction.spatial",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "along.spatial",
      "note": "contrasts-with",
      "type": "contrasts-with"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "flat.commonsurfacegeometry",
    "harmony.relational",
    "pure.state",
    "tough.resilient",
    "trust.reliance"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "across"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "added relevance.core to components because the definition implicitly relies on a criterion for determining which sides are salient or opposed in context"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-across.spatial"
}