{
  "id": "computer.digital",
  "term": "computer",
  "sense": "digital",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 11,
  "arena": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "domain": "common",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a device that processes digital information using code",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "device.tool",
      "digital.electrical",
      "code.information",
      "information.knowledge",
      "process.general",
      "use.application"
    ],
    "interaction": "the device uses code to change digital information through a structured process",
    "novel_properties": [
      "automated information transformation",
      "programmable operation",
      "digital execution control"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The F-16 fighter jet's fly-by-wire system computes pilot inputs 80 times per second to adjust flight surfaces.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Z3, built by Konrad Zuse in 1941, executed programs from punched film tape to solve complex calculations.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "Farmers in Punjab use smartphone apps to access real-time mandi prices, adjusting crop sales accordingly.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "login.digital"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "computer",
    "computers"
  ],
  "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": "definition was accurate; missing constitutive concepts added to components"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-computer.digital"
}