{
  "id": "call.communication",
  "term": "call",
  "sense": "communication",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 9,
  "arena": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "domain": "communication",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to send information to a person that the person receives",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "send.communication",
      "receive.communication",
      "people.social",
      "information.knowledge"
    ],
    "interaction": "the sender transmits information, which moves through a channel, enabling the receiver to obtain it, thus realizing a joint communicative act between socially connected individuals",
    "novel_properties": [
      "bidirectional information exchange",
      "coordinated sender-receiver roles",
      "shared contextual understanding"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2023, the James Webb Space Telescope transmitted 107 terabytes of observational data to Earth receivers.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "During the 2020 lockdowns, WhatsApp saw 100 million new daily active users sending personal messages.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 1963 March on Washington included radio call-ins from 250,000 attendees coordinating arrival times.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "interaction.process",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "receive.communication",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "call",
    "called",
    "calling",
    "calls"
  ],
  "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 'information.knowledge' as it is essential to what is sent and received; definition remained accurate and unchanged"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-call.communication"
}