{
  "id": "extent.spatial",
  "term": "extent",
  "sense": "spatial",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 3,
  "arena": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "domain": "general",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "how much space matter has",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "space.extent",
      "boundary.limit",
      "matter.substance"
    ],
    "interaction": "space is where matter can be and boundary is where it ends, together they make how much space matter has.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "volume",
      "spatial magnitude",
      "bounded region occupied"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Mount Everest occupies a fixed area of the Himalayan range, defined by its base and peak coordinates.",
      "domain": "geography"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Large Hadron Collider's 27-kilometer ring defines the spatial extent of the world's largest particle accelerator.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Amazon Rainforest covers approximately 5.5 million square kilometers across nine South American countries.",
      "domain": "ecology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "space.extent",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "along.spatial",
    "area.spatial",
    "length.spatial",
    "little.size",
    "local.spatial",
    "open.spatial",
    "see.visual",
    "small.size",
    "wide.spatial"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "extent",
    "extents"
  ],
  "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 matter.substance as a constitutive component since the definition refers to matter. Without it, the emergence account omits a core aspect of the meaning."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-extent.spatial"
}