{
  "id": "exhaustion.capacity",
  "term": "exhaustion",
  "sense": "capacity",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 15,
  "arena": "system",
  "domain": "window",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "maintaining a parameter outside its performance window while still inside its existence window.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "window.range",
      "wall.range-end",
      "parameter.condition",
      "maintenance.upkeep",
      "existence.state",
      "inside.spatial",
      "outside.spatial",
      "performance.quality",
      "still.quiet",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "These components collectively sustain a condition where a system continues to exist despite operating beyond its optimal functional range, by actively preserving it within viable limits.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "endurance beyond optimal function",
      "persistent viability under strain",
      "maintenance of existence amid degradation"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station maintains orbit at 400 km despite atmospheric drag requiring regular reboosts.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2021 Suez Canal blockage stranded container ships, each burning fuel to stay positioned against currents.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "Neurons in the human visual cortex fire continuously during prolonged focus, depleting local glucose reserves.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "exhaustion"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.8,
    "sources": [
      "Sample/hundred-words-six-terms.md"
    ],
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "windows.opening (L10) was added because the definition implicitly references window boundaries being crossed while existence is preserved; though homonymous with architectural windows, in EmergenceLex"
    },
    "restored": {
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "from": "Sample/hundred-words-six-terms.md",
      "replaced": "maintaining a parameter outside its performance window while still inside its existence window"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-exhaustion.capacity"
}