{
  "id": "box.container",
  "term": "box",
  "sense": "container",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 15,
  "arena": "box",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a case that limits a space in which material is inside",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "case.container",
      "boundary.limit",
      "material.physical",
      "inside.spatial",
      "limit.boundary",
      "space.extent"
    ],
    "interaction": "the case’s boundary limits a space that holds material",
    "novel_properties": [
      "contained volume",
      "protected interior",
      "material containment"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Fukushima Daiichi reactor #1 contained radioactive fuel rods in zirconium alloy tubes during the 2011 meltdown.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "A human skull encases the brain, maintaining cerebrospinal fluid within a rigid calcified boundary.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Bitcoin blockchain's 1MB block size limit constrained transaction throughput in 2017.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "case.container",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "cart.transport"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "box",
    "boxed",
    "boxes",
    "boxing"
  ],
  "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": "definition",
      "note": "added missing components from definition's conceptual dependencies; definition was correct and minimal"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-box.container"
}