{
  "id": "establishes.verb",
  "term": "establishes",
  "sense": "verb",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 5,
  "arena": "system formation",
  "domain": "emergent behavior",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "To make a pattern that persists in space and time by setting its boundaries through interaction.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "pattern.regularity",
      "persist.continue",
      "boundary.limit",
      "interaction.process",
      "make.verb",
      "setting.contextual",
      "space.extent",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "Pattern.regularity and boundary.limit are formed through interaction.process, allowing something to persist.continue in space and time.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "self-maintaining structure",
      "spatiotemporal coherence",
      "emergent stability"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Mississippi River established its current course after the 1927 flood bypassed levees and carved new channels.",
      "domain": "geography"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Linux kernel established stable API patterns through two decades of developer interactions and version releases.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 1951 New York City building codes established fire escape requirements after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory disaster.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "defines.verb",
      "type": "enables",
      "note": "establishing sets conditions for defining"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "defines.verb",
    "university.education"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "establish",
    "established",
    "establishes",
    "establishing"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "factual",
      "note": "Definition originally leaned on concepts not listed in components. Since those concepts (make.verb, setting.contextual, space.extent, time.dimension) are constitutive to the meaning of 'establishes.ve"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-establishes.verb"
}