{
  "id": "brown.color",
  "term": "brown",
  "sense": "color",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 13,
  "arena": "general",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a color that is the result of red, green, and blue colors interacting",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "red.color",
      "green.color",
      "blue.color",
      "color.visual",
      "interacting.social",
      "interaction.process",
      "results.outcome"
    ],
    "interaction": "red, green, and blue colors interact",
    "novel_properties": [
      "composite hue perception",
      "non-spectral color origin",
      "balanced wavelength absorption"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The color brown appears in Adobe RGB when red (165), green (42), and blue (42) values combine on a calibrated monitor.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "Soil in the Amazon rainforest reflects brown due to organic matter altering the interaction of sunlight with iron oxides.",
      "domain": "geology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 1933 Century of Progress Exposition used brown lighting effects by filtering red, green, and blue projectors through diffused glass.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "color.visual",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "brown is a kind of color"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "brown",
    "browns"
  ],
  "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 omitted constitutive concepts that the definition relies on: color.visual (foundation of all color senses), interacting.social and interaction.process (mechanism of combination), and results.out"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-brown.color"
}