{
  "id": "click.mechanical",
  "term": "click",
  "sense": "mechanical",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 4,
  "arena": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "domain": "english",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "When parts touch together and a change happens",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "touch.together",
      "change.process",
      "happen.event-occurrence",
      "part.relation"
    ],
    "interaction": "Parts come into contact, initiating an event where change occurs.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "sudden transition",
      "contact-triggered change",
      "discrete response"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "A ballpoint pen clicks shut when the spring-loaded mechanism locks the tip into place after pressing the button.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Geiger counter clicks each time a radioactive particle ionizes gas in the tube, completing a circuit.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "A climber's carabiner clicks into the harness loop, securing the rope connection during ascent.",
      "domain": "everyday-life"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "happen.event-occurrence",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "button.tool"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "click",
    "clicked",
    "clicking",
    "clicks"
  ],
  "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 'hapid.event-occurrence' and 'part.relation' to components — conceptually necessary and implicitly relied upon in the original definition."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-click.mechanical"
}