{
  "id": "board.material",
  "term": "board",
  "sense": "material",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 16,
  "arena": "board",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a flat piece of material that is a surface for placing things",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "material.physical",
      "piece.portion",
      "flat.commonsurfacegeometry",
      "surface.exterior",
      "space.extent"
    ],
    "interaction": "When a physical material is divided into a bounded portion and arranged with a flat exterior, it forms a coherent surface available for use.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "usable surface area",
      "structural stability",
      "placement capacity"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station's solar array wings deploy rigid photovoltaic panels to power onboard systems.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 1977 vinyl release of Elvis Presley's 'Moody Blue' played on a Technics SL-1200 turntable at Studio B in Nashville.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Treaty on the Antarctic Treaty System designates the continent as a scientific preserve, freezing territorial claims.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "piece.portion",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "others.distinct-entities",
      "note": "medium-for",
      "type": "medium-for"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "airport.transport"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "board",
    "boarded",
    "boarding",
    "boards"
  ],
  "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": "components",
      "note": "Definition was already accurate; missing constitutive concepts added to components to align with definition’s implicit commitments."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-board.material"
}