{
  "id": "browser.software",
  "term": "browser",
  "sense": "software",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 18,
  "arena": "digital",
  "domain": "technology.tool",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "software on a device that lets people access and view web pages",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "software.digital",
      "device.tool",
      "web.structure",
      "access.entry",
      "allow.permission",
      "page.sheet",
      "people.social",
      "view.visual",
      "let.permission"
    ],
    "interaction": "software on a device enables people to access and view web pages",
    "novel_properties": [
      "web page accessibility",
      "information navigation",
      "remote content rendering"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Firefox 1.0, released in 2004, rendered HTML pages from the public web on personal computers.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Wayback Machine's browser interface allows access to archived web pages from 1996 onward.",
      "domain": "archiving"
    },
    {
      "text": "Nokia 770, shipped in 2005 with Mozilla-based browser, enabled internet viewing on a handheld device.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "device.tool",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "a browser is a kind of device.tool"
    },
    {
      "id": "access.entry",
      "type": "enables",
      "note": "a browser enables access.entry to web pages"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "browser",
    "browsers"
  ],
  "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 missing 'let.permission' (L8) which is implied in 'lets' within the definition. Existing components already support the meaning; no definition rewrite needed."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-browser.software"
}