{
  "id": "delicate.window",
  "term": "delicate",
  "sense": "window",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 13,
  "arena": "ontological",
  "domain": "window",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "a parameter whose window is narrow for performance but wide for existence",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "parameter.condition",
      "window.range",
      "narrow.spatial",
      "wide.spatial",
      "existence.state",
      "performance.quality"
    ],
    "interaction": "The components jointly structure a condition parameter whose range for continued existence is wider than its range for effective performance, creating a sensitivity where functionality requires tighter bounds than mere persistence.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "differential tolerance thresholds",
      "performance-existence asymmetry"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station maintains attitude within ±0.5 degrees using CMGs, or solar power and comms fail.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2003, the Northeast Blackout occurred when a single Ohio power line sagged into trees, collapsing grid frequency.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "Human hemoglobin functions only between pH 7.35 and 7.45; outside this, oxygen binding drops sharply.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "delicacy",
    "delicate",
    "delicately"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.8,
    "sources": [
      "Sample/hundred-words-six-terms.md"
    ],
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "windows.opening removed: incidental homophone; the term 'window' here refers to range, not architectural feature."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-delicate.window"
}