{
  "id": "black.color",
  "term": "black",
  "sense": "color",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 8,
  "arena": "black",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a visual state of a thing that is an exact mark of little intensity",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "matter.substance",
      "energy.capacity",
      "just.exact",
      "little.size",
      "marks.visual",
      "state.condition",
      "visual.perceptual",
      "exact.precision"
    ],
    "interaction": "the matter absorbs most of the arriving energy, so the visual mark that remains is of little intensity",
    "novel_properties": [
      "low-intensity appearance",
      "exact visual absorption",
      "persistent dark state"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The night sky over the Atacama Desert appears black because so little light reaches it from nearby sources.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "Vantablack, made from carbon nanotubes, absorbs 99.96% of visible light, appearing as a visual void.",
      "domain": "materials"
    },
    {
      "text": "In digital imaging, a pixel with RGB value (0,0,0) is rendered black, marking the absence of emitted light.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "visual.perceptual",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "white.color"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "black",
    "blacks"
  ],
  "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": "factual",
      "note": "Added 'exact.precision' (L3) as it is essential to 'exact mark' in definition; 'visual.perceptual' was misspelled as 'visual.percept intellectual' in prior attempt — corrected to valid node."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-black.color"
}