{
  "id": "effort.general",
  "term": "effort",
  "sense": "general",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "effort",
  "domain": "general",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "the use of energy to make a change in something",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "energy.capacity",
      "change.process",
      "make.verb",
      "use.application"
    ],
    "interaction": "energy is applied through use to enable making, resulting in change.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "directed energy expenditure",
      "intentional transformation",
      "measured consumption"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The James Webb Space Telescope corrects its mirror alignment monthly to compensate for thermal drift in orbit.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "E. coli bacteria expend ATP to rotate flagella and swim toward glucose gradients in gut environments.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2023 German railway strike disrupted national transit as workers withheld labor from scheduling systems.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "work.effort",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "factor-of-safety.margin",
    "power.energy",
    "study.learning"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "effort",
    "efforts"
  ],
  "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 make.verb and use.application to components, which are constitutive in the definition's meaning of 'use' and 'make'. Definition remained accurate and concise."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-effort.general"
}