{
  "id": "chat.digital",
  "term": "chat",
  "sense": "digital",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 10,
  "arena": "everyday",
  "domain": "communication",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "talk that happens online",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "talk.spoken",
      "online.digital"
    ],
    "interaction": "talk happens through online",
    "novel_properties": [
      "real‑time exchange",
      "textual medium"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Users exchanged messages in real time during the 2010 Haiti earthquake using WhatsApp to coordinate relief efforts.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "Players in the 2023 online multiplayer game 'Fortnite' used voice chat to strategize during a live tournament event.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2016, the Democratic National Committee email leak revealed internal staff using private chat logs on IRC to discuss campaign strategies.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "talk.spoken",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "chat is a form of talk"
    },
    {
      "id": "message.information",
      "type": "enables",
      "note": "chat enables exchange of messages"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "chat",
    "chats",
    "chatted",
    "chatting"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-chat.digital"
}