{
  "id": "design.plan",
  "term": "design",
  "sense": "plan",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 9,
  "arena": "design",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a structure that orders parts for a goal",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "structure.arrangement",
      "goal.purpose",
      "order.arrangement",
      "part.relation"
    ],
    "interaction": "the arrangement organizes parts according to a narrow order, directed toward a purpose",
    "novel_properties": [
      "directed organization",
      "structured functionality",
      "hierarchical coherence"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station's solar array wings rotate to track the sun, maximizing power for life support and experiments.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Bees build hexagonal honeycombs to store honey efficiently, using minimal wax for maximum storage strength.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 1947 U.S. National Security Act organized military and intelligence agencies under a unified Department of Defense structure.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "structure.arrangement",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "engineering.technical",
    "plan.strategic"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "design",
    "designed",
    "designing",
    "designs"
  ],
  "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": "factual",
      "note": "Definition was factually incomplete as it leaned on 'order' and 'part' concepts not listed. Added missing constitutive components."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-design.plan"
}