{
  "id": "cross.pass",
  "term": "cross",
  "sense": "pass",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 4,
  "domain": "systems",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "To go through a boundary from one place to another.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "go.movement",
      "boundary.limit",
      "space.extent",
      "motion.movement"
    ],
    "interaction": "Motion carries a thing up to a boundary and on through it, so that what was inside is now outside; the crossing is the moment the boundary stops holding the thing.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "an event located at a boundary",
      "before and after that differ in kind",
      "the moment a wall is tested"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "cross.symbol",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "crossing a wall, not the shape of two lines; 'crossing a wall' resolved to the shape until 2026-09-28"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "boiling-frog.drift",
    "boiling-the-frog.drift",
    "breaking-point.threshold",
    "butterfly-effect.amplification",
    "chicken-and-egg.stacked",
    "collapse.failure",
    "cusp.threshold",
    "death-by-a-thousand-cuts.drift",
    "domino-effect.stacked",
    "fear.nearing-wall",
    "firefighting.upkeep",
    "flywheel-effect.momentum",
    "gone-too-far.threshold",
    "knock-on-effect.stacked",
    "lessons-of-history.past-model",
    "locked-in.path",
    "metastable.shallow",
    "nation-of-immigrants.arrival",
    "network-effect.threshold",
    "never-again.past-wall",
    "our-borders-our-rules.self-set",
    "outsiders-coming-in.crossing",
    "past-the-point-of-no-return.threshold",
    "perfect-storm.threshold",
    "point-of-no-return.threshold",
    "possibility.potential",
    "razor-thin.margin",
    "recovery.interval",
    "running-on-fumes.upkeep",
    "shell-shocked.stunned",
    "shock-doctrine.exploit",
    "slippery-slope.drift",
    "the-final-nail.threshold",
    "the-way-we-have-always-done-it.path-dependence",
    "the-writing-on-the-wall.forewarning",
    "tipping-point.irreversible",
    "transformation.phase",
    "verge.edge",
    "vicious-cycle.stacked",
    "walking-on-eggshells.threshold",
    "window-exit-versus-removed-part.distinction"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "cross",
    "crossed",
    "crosses",
    "crossing"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated",
    "date": "2026-09-28",
    "confidence": 0.9,
    "sources": [
      "Sample/hundred-words-six-terms.md",
      "schema/power-agency-phase.md"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-cross.pass"
}