{
  "id": "details.information",
  "term": "details",
  "sense": "information",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "emergencelexicon",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a piece of information that is about a part of something",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "piece.portion",
      "information.knowledge",
      "part.relation"
    ],
    "interaction": "the piece of information is about a part of something, together producing an element of knowledge",
    "novel_properties": [
      "specific focus",
      "contextual relevance"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2008 financial crisis revealed a missing detail: many mortgage-backed securities contained high-risk loans misclassified as safe.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Mars Climate Orbiter burned up because engineering teams used different units—pound-seconds vs. newton-seconds—for thruster details.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Watson and Crick’s DNA model succeeded only after they included Franklin’s X-ray diffraction detail showing a helical pitch of 3.4 Å.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "information.knowledge",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "noun.language",
    "particular.specific",
    "profile.personal"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "detail",
    "detailed",
    "detailing",
    "details"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-details.information"
}