{
  "id": "degree.measurement",
  "term": "degree",
  "sense": "measurement",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 13,
  "arena": "common",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a measurement that indicates how much a substance differs from its origin",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "size.measurement",
      "difference.relation",
      "matter.substance",
      "measurement.quantitative",
      "source.origin",
      "substance.material"
    ],
    "interaction": "size.measurement and difference.relation combine with measurement.quantitative to yield a numerical indication of how far a substance is from its source",
    "novel_properties": [
      "quantified divergence from origin",
      "numerical representation of material difference",
      "measured displacement in substance"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Water boils at 100°C at sea level, 10 degrees higher than its standard freezing point.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The pH of lemon juice is 2, a measure of how much more acidic it is than pure water.",
      "domain": "chemistry"
    },
    {
      "text": "Mount Everest's peak is 8,848 meters above sea level, a degree of elevation from Earth's reference plane.",
      "domain": "geography"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "extent.spatial",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "a degree is a kind of extent"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "degree",
    "degrees"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "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 missing constitutive component 'substance.material' to align with definition's reliance on material persistence through change."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-degree.measurement"
}