{
  "id": "case.container",
  "term": "case",
  "sense": "container",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 6,
  "arena": "case",
  "domain": "syntactic",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "A piece that bounds something and keeps it inside.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "piece.portion",
      "boundary.limit",
      "inside.spatial",
      "keep.maintenance"
    ],
    "interaction": "The piece establishes a bounded limit and the boundary defines an edge, together creating a spatial inside where something is kept.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "enclosed interior",
      "containment function",
      "persistent placement"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Fukushima Daiichi reactor containment vessel held radioactive material during the 2011 meltdown, preventing total release.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "A USB flash drive's plastic shell protects the internal circuit board from physical damage and moisture.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Liberty Bell's steel alloy casing has contained its fracture since 1846, preserving its iconic crack.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "box.container"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "case",
    "cased",
    "cases",
    "casing"
  ],
  "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 inside.spatial and keep.maintenance to components to align with definition's reliance on spatial interior and maintenance of state. Definition remains accurate and concise."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-case.container"
}