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  "id": "change.process",
  "term": "change",
  "sense": "process",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 1,
  "arena": "E1",
  "domain": "physics",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "When a thing is not the same after as it was before.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "time.dimension",
      "pattern.regularity"
    ],
    "interaction": "A pattern compared with itself across time fails to match.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "before/after distinction",
      "process",
      "event"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The rusting of the Iron Pillar of Delhi has been negligible since 400 CE despite monsoon exposure.",
      "domain": "materials"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Amazon River shifted its course by 100 kilometers over 10,000 years due to sediment buildup.",
      "domain": "geography"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Linux kernel evolved from version 0.01 in 1991 to 6.0 in 2022, altering 25 million lines of code.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
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  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "hand",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 1.0
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-change.process"
}