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  "id": "electrical.electrical",
  "term": "electrical",
  "sense": "electrical",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "electrical",
  "domain": "common",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "about the flow of electricity through matter",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "electricity.electrical",
      "matter.substance",
      "flow.movement"
    ],
    "interaction": "electricity moves through matter in a pattern of collective motion.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "directed energy transfer",
      "continuous conductive path",
      "potential-driven flow"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2021 Texas power grid failed when ice blocked generators, halting electrical flow across substations.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Neurons in the human brain transmit signals via electrical pulses across synapses at speeds up to 120 meters per second.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Large Hadron Collider uses superconducting electromagnets cooled to -271.3°C to guide electrical currents precisely.",
      "domain": "physics"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "id": "property.attribute",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "electronics.electrical",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "pics.visual"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "electrical"
  ],
  "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 'flow.movement' as a constitutive component since the definition and interaction rely on the concept of collective motion through matter."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-electrical.electrical"
}