{
  "id": "best-practice.standard",
  "term": "best practice",
  "sense": "standard",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 17,
  "arena": "the moving wall",
  "domain": "practice",
  "style": "folk",
  "definition": "a model that was once good enough to stay inside the window but now reports only that the wall has moved",
  "folk_gloss": "a proven way of doing something well",
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "model.representation",
      "window.range",
      "wall.range-end",
      "drift.aimless"
    ],
    "interaction": "self-model",
    "novel_properties": [
      "drift.aimless"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Therac-25 radiation therapy machine relied on software checks once deemed sufficient, until hardware faults it couldn't detect caused lethal overdoses.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "New York City's 1916 zoning resolution formalized setbacks to allow light, becoming a 'best practice' even as skyscraper density outgrew its assumptions.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Linux 2.4 kernel's O(1) scheduler was standard for years, though it failed to adapt to desktop interactivity demands on multicore systems.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "best practice"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "phrases:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.7,
    "sources": [
      "folk phrase — the moving wall"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-best-practice.standard"
}