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  "id": "auditory.sensory",
  "term": "auditory",
  "sense": "sensory",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 3,
  "arena": "lexicon",
  "domain": "auditory.sensory",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "about audio",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "audio.auditory",
      "pattern.regularity"
    ],
    "interaction": "audio repeats over time in a regular pattern",
    "novel_properties": [
      "perceptible quality",
      "subjective experience"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 440 Hz tuning standard persists in orchestras worldwide despite no central authority enforcing it.",
      "domain": "culture"
    },
    {
      "text": "The human brain distinguishes phonemes in speech by detecting consistent patterns in sound wave frequencies.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "Amazon Alexa recognizes wake words by detecting specific audio signatures amid background noise.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "property.attribute",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "heard.auditory"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "auditory"
  ],
  "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-auditory.sensory"
}