{
  "id": "button.tool",
  "term": "button",
  "sense": "tool",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 17,
  "arena": "physiological",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a part that can be pressed to enable an action",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "part.relation",
      "press.force",
      "click.mechanical",
      "action.deed",
      "enables.facilitation"
    ],
    "interaction": "pressing the part causes a mechanical click and enables an action",
    "novel_properties": [
      "tactile feedback",
      "action initiation",
      "discrete input"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The red 'E-stop' button on a factory robot cuts power when pressed during malfunction.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 'Like' button on Facebook's newsfeed triggers a thumbs-up action after user input.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "A doorbell chime sounds when the brass button by the front gate is pressed.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "device.tool",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "a button is a type of tool"
    },
    {
      "id": "click.mechanical",
      "type": "enables",
      "note": "pressing it can produce a click sound"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "button",
    "buttoned",
    "buttoning",
    "buttons"
  ],
  "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 but essential concepts 'action.deed' and 'enables.facilitation' which are required by the definition and interaction. These are existing nodes and genuinely constitutive. Definition rema"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-button.tool"
}