{
  "id": "common.general",
  "term": "common",
  "sense": "general",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 3,
  "arena": "common.general",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a thing that is regular and is among many others",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "regular.frequency",
      "others.distinct-entities"
    ],
    "interaction": "regular patterns appear in many distinct entities, creating a shared occurrence",
    "novel_properties": [
      "shared prevalence",
      "typicality across group"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Water boils at 100°C at sea level under standard atmospheric pressure.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The human genome contains about 20,000 protein-coding genes, most shared across individuals.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The letter 'e' appears more frequently than any other letter in English text.",
      "domain": "linguistics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "usual.common",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "common",
    "commons"
  ],
  "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-common.general"
}