{
  "id": "continue.action",
  "term": "continue",
  "sense": "action",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 6,
  "arena": "continue",
  "domain": "verb",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "persist while doing something through time",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "persist.continue",
      "repeats.action",
      "doing.activity",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "When persistence through time combines with repeating an action, the action continues.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "ongoing action",
      "temporal continuity of doing",
      "uninterrupted process"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Voyager 1 probe continues transmitting data across 24 billion kilometers of space, 46 years after launch.",
      "domain": "space exploration"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Pacific Plate continues moving northwest at 8 cm per year, shifting cities toward subduction zones.",
      "domain": "geophysics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Internet Archive continues copying publicly accessible web pages every few weeks since 1996.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "persist.continue",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "momentum.retained",
    "siege.system"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "continue",
    "continued",
    "continues",
    "continuing"
  ],
  "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": "Added 'doing.activity' and 'time.dimension' to components; the definition now accurately reflects the emergent structure without relying on unstated concepts."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-continue.action"
}