{
  "id": "download.digital",
  "term": "download",
  "sense": "digital",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 10,
  "arena": "lexicon",
  "domain": "common",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to receive data from a network into a local device",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "data.information",
      "network.system",
      "receive.communication",
      "device.tool",
      "local.spatial"
    ],
    "interaction": "Data from a network is received through communication into a device located in the local spatial context.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "remote-to-local transfer",
      "system-mediated reception",
      "digital acquisition"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2023, a Raspberry Pi downloaded the Linux kernel from mirrors.kernel.org to boot.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Hubble Space Telescope receives scientific data from NASA's Deep Space Network each week.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Every morning, the New York Times app on an iPhone downloads the latest edition over cellular.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "process.general",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "download",
    "downloaded",
    "downloading",
    "downloads"
  ],
  "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 missing components device.tool and local.spatial which are essential to the concept as described in the definition. The definition was correct and complete, but the components list was incomplet"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-download.digital"
}