{
  "id": "engineering.technical",
  "term": "engineering",
  "sense": "technical",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 10,
  "arena": "engineering",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "Organized design and construction that make structured products.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "design.plan",
      "construction.building",
      "make.verb",
      "organized.structure",
      "products.goods",
      "structure.arrangement"
    ],
    "interaction": "Design and construction work together through the formation of persistent structural arrangements to produce goods.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "persistent structural order",
      "functional integration",
      "artifact purpose"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station's modular design allowed assembly in orbit over 1998–2011 by 16 nations.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Hoover Dam, completed in 1936, channels Colorado River flow to generate 4.2 billion kWh annually.",
      "domain": "infrastructure"
    },
    {
      "text": "Linux kernel development began in 1991 as a collaborative codebase for open-source operating systems.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "process.general",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "engineering"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "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 missing constitutive concepts from definition to components. Definition slightly tightened for concision but kept intact as it was accurate and minimal."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-engineering.technical"
}