{
  "id": "course.path",
  "term": "course",
  "sense": "path",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 10,
  "arena": "course",
  "domain": "general",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a way that goes through space during time",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "space.extent",
      "time.dimension",
      "motion.movement",
      "go.movement",
      "way.method"
    ],
    "interaction": "Motion through space over time realizes a path, as going connects places across space within time.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "continuous trajectory",
      "spatiotemporal connectedness",
      "directed progression"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Mississippi River shifts its path to the Gulf of Mexico every few centuries, carving new channels through sediment.",
      "domain": "geography"
    },
    {
      "text": "Voyager 1 follows a trajectory through interstellar space, adjusted only by gravity since its 1977 launch.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Panama Canal guides ships along a 50-mile engineered route across the Isthmus, replacing the longer Cape Horn passage.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "way.method",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "course",
    "coursed",
    "courses",
    "coursing"
  ],
  "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 unchanged; missing constitutive concepts (go.movement, way.method) added to components."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-course.path"
}