{
  "id": "edit.process",
  "term": "edit",
  "sense": "process",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "edit",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to change a piece by adding parts or taking away parts",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "change.process",
      "part.relation",
      "add.operation",
      "take.acquisition",
      "away.spatial",
      "piece.portion"
    ],
    "interaction": "The change process modifies a piece by using addition to incorporate parts or removal to separate them, altering its composition.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "altered composition",
      "directed modification",
      "bounded part manipulation"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Wikipedia editors removed the false claim that Barack Obama received a 102% approval rating in 2009.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Linus Torvalds merged a patch removing deprecated code from Linux kernel version 5.12 in 2021.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 1964 film 'Dr. Strangelove' was cut by 12 minutes after its London premiere due to audience feedback.",
      "domain": "art"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "change.process",
      "note": "type:is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "content.material",
      "note": "type:enables",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "editor.role",
    "reputation.social-model"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "edit",
    "edited",
    "editing",
    "edits"
  ],
  "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 'away.spatial' and 'piece.portion' to components to align with definition's reliance on spatial removal and bounded portions; definition remains correct as-is."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-edit.process"
}