{
  "id": "audio.auditory",
  "term": "audio",
  "sense": "auditory",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 2,
  "arena": "audio",
  "domain": "audio",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a pattern of energy that repeats over time in a place",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "energy.capacity",
      "pattern.regularity",
      "time.dimension",
      "repeats.action",
      "space.extent"
    ],
    "interaction": "the capacity for change, regular form, temporal extent, repetition, and spatial location interact to sustain a detectable signal over time and place",
    "novel_properties": [
      "temporal coherence",
      "spatially bounded variation",
      "perceivable rhythm"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 440 Hz tone from a tuning fork vibrates consistently when struck, producing a standard A note.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "Whale songs recorded near Bermuda repeat sequences every 12 minutes across hours of underwater monitoring.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The hourly chime of Big Ben in London propagates through the air as a repeating pressure wave.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "music.auditory",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "album.music",
    "auditory.sensory",
    "film.entertainment",
    "radio.electrical",
    "sound.auditory"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "audio",
    "audios"
  ],
  "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 repeats.action and space.extent to components to align with definition; these are essential for 'repeating pattern in a place'. Definition remains accurate and concise."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-audio.auditory"
}