{
  "id": "airport.transport",
  "term": "airport",
  "sense": "transport",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 17,
  "arena": "airports",
  "domain": "structure",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "large building where people board and leave a vehicle that travels through air",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "building.structure",
      "space.extent",
      "air.material",
      "board.material",
      "car.transport",
      "large.size",
      "leave.movement",
      "people.social",
      "travel.movement"
    ],
    "interaction": "building.structure and space.extent are arranged with air.material and car.transport to enable people to board and travel through air",
    "novel_properties": [
      "aerial transit hub",
      "structured passenger flow",
      "takeoff and landing access"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Beijing Daxing International Airport handled 34.1 million passengers in 2023 while expanding its automated boarding system.",
      "domain": "transport"
    },
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station maintains orbit through periodic reboosts from attached thrusters.",
      "domain": "space"
    },
    {
      "text": "Changi Airport in Singapore uses real-time sensor networks to manage passenger flow across Terminal 3.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "building.structure",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "medium-for"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "airport",
    "airports"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "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": "Definition corrected: 'car that travel through air' was factually wrong (airplanes, not cars); updated to 'vehicle that travels through air'. All constitutive concepts now included in components."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-airport.transport"
}