{
  "id": "context.surrounding-conditions",
  "term": "context",
  "sense": "surrounding-conditions",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 11,
  "arena": "general",
  "domain": "window",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "the parameters outside a system that set its walls.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "parameter.condition",
      "window.range",
      "wall.range-end",
      "outside.spatial",
      "sets.grouped",
      "system.organized"
    ],
    "interaction": "The organized system is bounded by a grouped set of spatial conditions outside it, within which a parameter's range defines a window; the endpoints of that window are the walls set by those external conditions.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "external boundary-setting",
      "condition-dependent persistence",
      "spatially-mediated constraint"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station maintains orbit between 400–420 km altitude despite atmospheric drag.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2008 financial crisis reshaped lending thresholds across U.S. banks, resetting risk exposure limits.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "Yellowstone’s supervolcano caldera spans 72 km wide, bounded by geological fault lines from past eruptions.",
      "domain": "geology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "context"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "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": "The components now fully support the canonical definition by including the missing constitutive concepts: the system's organized nature, the spatial sense of 'outside', and the grouping of conditions;"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-context.surrounding-conditions"
}