{
  "id": "annual.temporal",
  "term": "annual",
  "sense": "temporal",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 10,
  "arena": "lexicon",
  "domain": "time",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "happening each year",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "year.time",
      "regular.frequency",
      "happen.event-occurrence"
    ],
    "interaction": "A year repeats with regular frequency, creating a once-per-year recurrence of an event.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "periodic recurrence",
      "annual occurrence",
      "temporal regularity"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Perseid meteor shower peaks every August when Earth crosses the orbit of comet Swift-Tuttle.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "The fiscal year-end audit at Toyota requires consolidated reports from all 528 subsidiaries worldwide.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "Linux kernel version updates are released every 9-10 months following a strict merge window schedule.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "regular.frequency",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "annual is a kind of regular frequency"
    },
    {
      "id": "year.time",
      "type": "abstracts",
      "note": "annual abstracts the concept of a year"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "annual",
    "annuals"
  ],
  "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 'happen.event-occurrence' to components to align with the definition's dependence on event occurrence, which was previously omitted. Definition unchanged as it was accurate and concise."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-annual.temporal"
}