{
  "id": "effects.result",
  "term": "effects",
  "sense": "result",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 12,
  "arena": "common",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "A difference that results from a cause.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "difference.relation",
      "cause.reason",
      "results.outcome"
    ],
    "interaction": "A cause produces a change, and the resulting difference is perceived as an effect.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "causal consequence",
      "measurable change",
      "post-event state"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull disrupted 100,000 flights across Europe due to ash dispersion.",
      "domain": "geology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2008 financial crisis led to a global recession, shrinking world GDP by 0.1% in 2009.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Heartbleed bug in OpenSSL exposed memory contents, leaking passwords and keys from millions of servers.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "outcome.result",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "effects are a type of outcome"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "effect",
    "effects"
  ],
  "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": "The definition was correct but the record omitted 'results.outcome' as a constitutive component. Added to align with the emergence logic."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-effects.result"
}