{
  "id": "distinct.attribute",
  "term": "distinct",
  "sense": "attribute",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 3,
  "arena": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a thing is not the same as another thing",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "difference.relation",
      "others.distinct-entities"
    ],
    "interaction": "the difference relation between others makes a thing be not same as another",
    "novel_properties": [
      "separate identity",
      "recognizable difference"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The proton and electron in a hydrogen atom have distinct masses, charges, and quantum roles.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2020 U.S. Census counted 331 million people, each assigned a distinct identification number.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "In Python, each key in a dictionary must be distinct; duplicate keys cause data to be overwritten.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "difference.relation",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "corporation.business",
    "danger.condition",
    "digital.electrical",
    "entities.object",
    "features.attribute",
    "individual.entity",
    "items.object",
    "network.system",
    "number.quantity",
    "people.social",
    "personal.self",
    "quality.value",
    "rock.material",
    "says.speech",
    "self.personal",
    "style.fashion"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "distinct"
  ],
  "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-distinct.attribute"
}