{
  "id": "close.spatial",
  "term": "close",
  "sense": "spatial",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 5,
  "arena": "close.spatial",
  "domain": "spatial",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "having little space between two things",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "space.extent",
      "difference.relation",
      "little.size"
    ],
    "interaction": "space.extent and difference.relation together make the amount of space between things small",
    "novel_properties": [
      "proximity",
      "small separation",
      "bounded distance"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The plates of the San Andreas Fault are within meters of each other, causing frequent seismic activity near Los Angeles.",
      "domain": "geology"
    },
    {
      "text": "In Tokyo Station, platform edges are less than 10 cm from the train doors, minimizing gaps for safety.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Neurons in the human brain can be separated by synapses as narrow as 20 nanometers, enabling rapid signal transmission.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "despair.state",
    "hope.emotional",
    "possibility.potential",
    "pressure.ontological",
    "thaw.recovery",
    "the-compression-claim.assertion"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "close",
    "closed",
    "closes",
    "closing"
  ],
  "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 'little.size' as a component because the definition's meaning of 'close' depends on a small extent of space, which requires the concept of 'little' size relative to typical separation."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-close.spatial"
}