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  "id": "basic.simple",
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  "sense": "simple",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 14,
  "arena": "concept",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "simple and part of whole",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "simple.effort",
      "part.relation",
      "whole.complete"
    ],
    "interaction": "When a simple part of a whole is, it is basic.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "simplicity",
      "fundamentality"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Water forms H₂O molecules through covalent bonds between two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom.",
      "domain": "chemistry"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 1986 Challenger shuttle explosion resulted from a single O-ring seal failure in a solid rocket booster.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "A haiku follows a 5-7-5 syllable structure, creating a complete poem from minimal elements.",
      "domain": "literature"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "simple.effort",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "basic is a kind of simple"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
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    "basics"
  ],
  "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-basic.simple"
}