{
  "id": "addition.mathematical",
  "term": "addition",
  "sense": "mathematical",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 12,
  "arena": "addition",
  "domain": "emergence",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "the result of adding numbers together",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "add.operation",
      "number.quantity",
      "results.outcome"
    ],
    "interaction": "add combines numbers to produce a result that reflects their total quantity",
    "novel_properties": [
      "total quantity",
      "numerical outcome",
      "sum formation"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2020 U.S. Census recorded a population of 331,449,281, up from 308,745,538 in 2010, showing addition across a decade.",
      "domain": "demographics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Large Hadron Collider summed energy deposits from 40 million collisions per second to detect the Higgs boson.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "On April 14, 1912, the sinking Titanic carried 2,224 passengers and crew—324 more than the Carpathia could carry when rescuing survivors.",
      "domain": "history"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "outcome.result",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "addition",
    "additions"
  ],
  "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": "factual",
      "note": "Original definition omitted 'results.outcome' as a component despite depending on it; added to align record with definition. Definition tightened slightly for clarity."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-addition.mathematical"
}