{
  "id": "coherence.state",
  "term": "coherence",
  "sense": "state",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 11,
  "arena": "ontology",
  "domain": "window",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "parts whose windows are mutually compatible",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "part.relation",
      "window.range",
      "boundary.limit",
      "persist.continue"
    ],
    "interaction": "The parts, each bounded and persisting through compatible parameter windows, align so their boundaries and conditions coexist without rupture.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "mutual tolerance of change",
      "collective persistence"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station maintains stable internal pressure despite micrometeoroid risks and component failures.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The U.S. Constitution has functioned continuously since 1789, adapting through amendments and court interpretations.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "A superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) sustains quantum coherence across its Josephson junctions below 4K.",
      "domain": "physics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "sanity-check.trust"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "coherence"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.8,
    "sources": [
      "Sample/abstract-concepts-as-ranges.md"
    ],
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "windows.opening was excluded because it refers to a physical architectural feature and is not constitutive of the abstract coherence state; parameter.condition was removed because the definition does "
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-coherence.state"
}