{
  "id": "age.temporal",
  "term": "age",
  "sense": "temporal",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 3,
  "arena": "generic",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "the time since a thing began",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "time.dimension",
      "change.process",
      "since.temporal"
    ],
    "interaction": "time starts when a thing began and persists through change, marked by the duration from that point to now",
    "novel_properties": [
      "elapsed duration",
      "temporal continuity",
      "origin-point reference"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Sun has burned for 4.6 billion years, measured from the condensation of the solar nebula.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Treaty of Waitangi, signed in 1840, marks the legal foundation of modern New Zealand.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Proxima Centauri b’s atmosphere may have eroded over 4.8 billion years due to stellar flares.",
      "domain": "planetary science"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "time.dimension",
      "type": "abstracts",
      "note": "age abstracts time"
    },
    {
      "id": "example.temporal",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "age is a kind of temporal example"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "mature.development"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "age",
    "aged",
    "ages",
    "aging"
  ],
  "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": "added since.temporal to components as it is constitutive and missing; interaction updated to reflect joint function; no change to definition as it was accurate and concise"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-age.temporal"
}