{
  "id": "double.quantity",
  "term": "double",
  "sense": "quantity",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 5,
  "arena": "double.quantity",
  "domain": "emergence",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "make another thing that is a second of the first",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "make.verb",
      "copy.replication",
      "first.order",
      "second.temporal"
    ],
    "interaction": "make and copy together produce a second instance of something",
    "novel_properties": [
      "dual occurrence",
      "ordinal repetition",
      "temporal pairing"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Large Hadron Collider produces a second Higgs boson in 2016, four years after the first detection in 2012.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "A northern white rhino cell line was cloned in 2020, making the second living individual from the subspecies.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2011 Fukushima reactor cooling system failed to double its backup pumps before the tsunami hit.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "quantity.numerical",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "single.quantity",
      "note": "contrasts-with",
      "type": "contrasts-with"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "double",
    "doubled",
    "doubles",
    "doubling"
  ],
  "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": "definition",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive concepts 'first.order' and 'second.temporal' to components, as the definition relies on them to specify the production of a 'second' instance in sequence."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-double.quantity"
}