{
  "id": "along.spatial",
  "term": "along",
  "sense": "spatial",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 13,
  "arena": "english",
  "domain": "preposition",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to go in a line that follows the extent of a thing",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "go.movement",
      "line.geometric",
      "extent.spatial",
      "follows.sequential"
    ],
    "interaction": "the movement follows the extent, tracing a line in spatial continuity",
    "novel_properties": [
      "directional continuity",
      "spatial adjacency",
      "sequential alignment"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Trans-Siberian Railway runs along the southern edge of the Siberian taiga for over 9,000 kilometers.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Nile flows along the eastern margin of the Sahara Desert, sustaining cities from Aswan to Cairo.",
      "domain": "geography"
    },
    {
      "text": "Fiber-optic cables run along the seabed of the North Atlantic, carrying data between New York and London.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "river.watercourse",
    "tour.travel"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "along"
  ],
  "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 follows.sequential (L12) as it is constitutive in ensuring the movement maintains sequential order along the extent. Definition was correct; components were incomplete."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-along.spatial"
}