{
  "id": "below.spatial",
  "term": "below",
  "sense": "spatial",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 14,
  "arena": "dictionary",
  "domain": "language",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "at a location that is lower than another location",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "direction.spatial",
      "location.spatial",
      "low.spatial"
    ],
    "interaction": "direction and a sense of relative height position one location beneath another",
    "novel_properties": [
      "relative vertical position",
      "spatial superiority/inferiority",
      "hierarchical placement in space"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The wreck of the RMS Titanic rests at a depth of 3,800 meters in the North Atlantic Ocean.",
      "domain": "geography"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi reactor cores melted through their containment vessels during the nuclear disaster.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Roots of the California redwoods extend up to 3 meters below the forest floor to access groundwater.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "abstraction.process",
    "autonomy.self-governed",
    "emergent.window",
    "neglect.omission",
    "no-free-openings.no-openings"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "below"
  ],
  "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 'low.spatial' as it is constitutive in establishing the comparative height implied by 'below'. The original definition was correct but relied on an unlisted component."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-below.spatial"
}