{
  "id": "electronics.electrical",
  "term": "electronics",
  "sense": "electrical",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "likely.0",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "devices that use electricity to change information with parts in a structure",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "electricity.electrical",
      "device.tool",
      "structure.arrangement",
      "change.process",
      "information.knowledge",
      "part.relation",
      "use.application"
    ],
    "interaction": "electricity flows through structured parts in a device, using controlled change to encode or transform information.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "controlled information processing",
      "dynamic signal response",
      "reconfigurable functional states"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Apollo Guidance Computer directed lunar landings using integrated circuits powered by the spacecraft's electrical system.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2003 Northeast Blackout halted traffic signals, hospital equipment, and communication networks across eight U.S. states.",
      "domain": "event"
    },
    {
      "text": "The IBM 1401 processed payroll data for businesses in the 1960s using transistorized circuitry and magnetic core memory.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "technology.tool",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "enables"
    },
    {
      "id": "control.ability",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "electronics"
  ],
  "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": "definition",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive concepts to components; definition remained factually sound but was under-specified. Interaction and novel properties reflect the integrated behavior."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-electronics.electrical"
}