{
  "id": "connection.social",
  "term": "connection",
  "sense": "social",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 9,
  "arena": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "domain": "common",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a link between things that can be together",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "links.connection",
      "interaction.process"
    ],
    "interaction": "When a link and interaction make things be together",
    "novel_properties": [
      "mutual influence",
      "shared pathway",
      "joint identity"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2023 Python developer conference in Amsterdam hosted 8,500 attendees, fostering collaboration across 90 countries.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Silk Road linked Xi'an to Antioch, enabling trade and cultural exchange between China and the Roman Empire for over 1,500 years.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Neurons in the human hippocampus form synaptic connections during memory consolidation, observed in fMRI scans of subjects recalling events.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "links.connection",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "contact.physical",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "association.relation",
    "internet.digital"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "connection",
    "connections"
  ],
  "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-connection.social"
}