{
  "id": "digital.electrical",
  "term": "digital",
  "sense": "electrical",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "definition",
  "domain": "emergence",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "information that is made of distinct patterns",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "information.knowledge",
      "pattern.regularity",
      "distinct.attribute",
      "make.verb"
    ],
    "interaction": "information and pattern interact through distinction and assembly, making a structured, persistent form.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "discrete representation",
      "reliable replication",
      "abstract encoding"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Voyager 1 probe transmits data using binary pulses that distinguish between two voltage levels.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Morse code on a telegraph line uses short and long electrical pulses to represent letters.",
      "domain": "communications"
    },
    {
      "text": "A CD stores music as a sequence of pits and lands read by a laser in a digital pattern.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "online.digital",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "information.knowledge",
      "note": "abstracts",
      "type": "abstracts"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "computer.digital",
    "database.information",
    "files.digital",
    "pics.visual",
    "printer.tool"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "digital"
  ],
  "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": "components",
      "note": "Added 'distinct.attribute' and 'make.verb' to components, as they are essential for forming 'distinct patterns' from information and regularity."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-digital.electrical"
}