{
  "id": "environmental.surroundings",
  "term": "environmental",
  "sense": "surroundings",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 6,
  "arena": "environmental",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "about the surroundings that are around a thing",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "environment.surroundings",
      "space.extent",
      "surroundings.environment"
    ],
    "interaction": "the environment and extent of space together shape what conditions exist around a thing",
    "novel_properties": [
      "spatial context",
      "surrounding condition",
      "ambient setting"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station maintains a controlled internal environment despite the vacuum and radiation of outer space.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Coral reefs create complex microenvironments that support thousands of marine species in otherwise nutrient-poor waters.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "Central Park functions as a regulated urban environment, deliberately designed to contrast with the surrounding cityscape of Manhattan.",
      "domain": "urban planning"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "property.attribute",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "environment.surroundings",
      "note": "abstracts",
      "type": "abstracts"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "environmental"
  ],
  "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 missing but definitionally implied component surroundings.environment; definition remains accurate and concise"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-environmental.surroundings"
}