{
  "id": "alone.state",
  "term": "alone",
  "sense": "state",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 3,
  "arena": "alone",
  "domain": "lexical",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a state where it is in a place and no others are in that place",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "state.condition",
      "space.extent",
      "others.distinct-entities"
    ],
    "interaction": "the place have it and does not have others",
    "novel_properties": [
      "only occupancy",
      "no others"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Voyager 1 probe traveled beyond the heliosphere, with no other spacecraft within millions of kilometers.",
      "domain": "space-exploration"
    },
    {
      "text": "The last known speaker of Ayapaneco, Manuel Segovia, lived in Tantoyuca until his death in 2016.",
      "domain": "linguistics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Fukushima Daiichi reactor No. 4 building stood without personnel inside during the initial evacuation in March 2011.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "state.condition",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "others.distinct-entities",
      "note": "contrasts-with",
      "type": "contrasts-with"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "add.operation",
    "bottleneck.constraint",
    "overdue.temporal",
    "single.quantity"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "alone"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-alone.state"
}