{
  "id": "development.growth",
  "term": "development",
  "sense": "growth",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 5,
  "arena": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a change that makes a thing be a new structure over time",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "change.process",
      "structure.arrangement",
      "time.dimension",
      "make.verb",
      "new.recent"
    ],
    "interaction": "change and time make a thing be a new structure",
    "novel_properties": [
      "irreversible transformation",
      "structural novelty",
      "temporal progression"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Amazon rainforest regrew 15% of its 1980s deforestation by 2020, forming new canopy structures.",
      "domain": "ecology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station extended its original 15-year lifespan to 30 years through modular upgrades.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Bitcoin's network hash rate grew from 1 MH/s in 2009 to over 600 EH/s in 2023, altering its security structure.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "change.process",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "products.goods",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "adult.person",
    "career.occupation",
    "practice.skill",
    "teen.age"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "develop",
    "developed",
    "developing",
    "development",
    "developments",
    "develops"
  ],
  "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": "Added missing constitutive components 'make.verb' and 'new.recent' to align record with definition, which correctly captures the sense of growth as emergent from these elements."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-development.growth"
}