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  "id": "based.foundation",
  "term": "based",
  "sense": "foundation",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "based",
  "domain": "daily",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "having its pattern taken from another thing",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "pattern.regularity",
      "take.acquisition"
    ],
    "interaction": "The pattern is taken from another thing, so the thing has that pattern.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "reference",
      "dependence"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2020 US Census used the 2010 residential patterns to allocate sampling frames for urban neighborhoods.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The spiral arms of the Whirlpool Galaxy follow density wave patterns established by gravitational interactions with NGC 5195.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "Python's Django framework routes web requests based on patterns defined in its predecessor, Ruby on Rails.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "state.condition",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "pattern.regularity",
      "note": "abstracts",
      "type": "abstracts"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "based"
  ],
  "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-based.foundation"
}