{
  "id": "become.change",
  "term": "become",
  "sense": "change",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 5,
  "arena": "emergence",
  "domain": "lexical",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to be an object that undergoes a transition from one persistent state to another over time",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "change.process",
      "state.condition",
      "difference.relation",
      "object.entity",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "change.process operates over time.dimension to transform the state.condition of an object.entity, resulting in a difference.relation between its initial and final states.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "temporal transition",
      "state difference",
      "entity persistence"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Arctic sea ice shrank from 7.5 million km² in 1980 to 3.4 million km² in 2023, crossing a melt threshold.",
      "domain": "climate"
    },
    {
      "text": "The city of Detroit transitioned from 1.8 million residents in 1950 to under 640,000 by 2020, altering its urban structure.",
      "domain": "urban"
    },
    {
      "text": "The software library React changed from using mixins to hooks in version 16.8, shifting its state management model.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "change.process",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "heat.thermal",
    "learn.cognitive",
    "updated.temporal"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "became",
    "become",
    "becomes",
    "becoming"
  ],
  "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 (difference.relation, object.entity, time.dimension) to components. Tightened definition to align with components and avoid reliance on implicit concepts. Definitio"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-become.change"
}