{
  "id": "card.paper",
  "term": "card",
  "sense": "paper",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 16,
  "arena": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a small flat piece of material with information on it",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "material.physical",
      "information.knowledge",
      "flat.commonsurfacegeometry",
      "piece.portion",
      "small.size"
    ],
    "interaction": "material is arranged flat and information is put onto it",
    "novel_properties": [
      "inscribed surface",
      "portable information medium",
      "structured physical token"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "A playing card from the 1840 Hoyle deck lists suit and rank in standard notation.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Library of Congress uses 3x5 inch catalog cards to index books, handwritten until 1980.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "An ATM receipt printed on thermal paper in Tokyo on March 14, 2023, shows a 10,000 yen withdrawal.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "object.entity",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "information.knowledge",
      "note": "medium-for",
      "type": "medium-for"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "poker.game"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "card",
    "cards"
  ],
  "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 constitutive concepts flat.commonsurfacegeometry, piece.portion, and small.size to components; definition remained accurate and concise."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-card.paper"
}