{
  "id": "april.month",
  "term": "april",
  "sense": "month",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 14,
  "arena": "emergencelexicon",
  "domain": "common",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a month distinguished by a unique name within the sequence of months",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "month.temporal",
      "order.arrangement",
      "name.identifier",
      "specific.detail"
    ],
    "interaction": "the named identifier is positioned within the repeating temporal sequence, marking it distinctly each year",
    "novel_properties": [
      "distinct monthly identity",
      "fixed named position in annual cycle"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2023, the International Space Station rescheduled three EVAs originally planned for April due to debris tracking.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Internal Revenue Service sets April 15 as the annual deadline for federal income tax filing in the United States.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Apple Inc. announced the release of the iPhone 12 SE on April 15, 2020, during a virtual event.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "april",
    "aprils"
  ],
  "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": "definition",
      "note": "added missing constitutive concepts: name.identifier and specific.detail; revised definition to more precisely reflect emergence from components without redundancy or external reference"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-april.month"
}