{
  "id": "corruption.process",
  "term": "corruption",
  "sense": "process",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 15,
  "arena": "system-dynamics",
  "domain": "abstract",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "drift of a parameter toward a wall when maintenance no longer keeps it within the window",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "parameter.condition",
      "window.range",
      "wall.range-end",
      "drift.aimless",
      "maintenance.upkeep",
      "keep.maintenance",
      "toward.spatial"
    ],
    "interaction": "drift.aimless pushes a parameter toward a wall while maintenance.upkeep opposes it; when upkeep fails, the parameter moves toward the boundary of the window.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "uncontrolled directional change",
      "impending boundary violation",
      "maintenance failure consequence"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Tacoma Narrows Bridge oscillated with increasing amplitude until it collapsed, despite routine inspections.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Argentina's 1998–2002 currency peg to the US dollar drifted toward collapse as reserves dwindled and capital fled.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station's orbit decays about 2 km monthly without reboosts from visiting spacecraft.",
      "domain": "physics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "corruption"
  ],
  "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": "definition",
      "note": "Added keep.maintenance and toward.spatial to components to align with definition; removed irrelevant concepts like long.size and windows.opening. Definition tightened to avoid padding and better refle"
    },
    "restored": {
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "from": "Sample/abstract-concepts-as-ranges.md",
      "replaced": "drift of a parameter toward a boundary when maintenance fails to keep it within acceptable limits"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-corruption.process"
}