{
  "id": "exterior.spatial",
  "term": "exterior",
  "sense": "spatial",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 13,
  "arena": "exterior",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "the side of a thing that is not inside",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "side.surface",
      "boundary.limit",
      "inside.spatial"
    ],
    "interaction": "the side is at the boundary and is not inside",
    "novel_properties": [
      "exteriority",
      "spatial exclusion",
      "relative orientation"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station's exterior hull faces constant micrometeorite erosion in low Earth orbit.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Mount Rushmore's exterior surfaces weather from wind and rain, exposing granite to decades of erosion.",
      "domain": "geology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The exterior wall of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris shielded the interior during the 2019 fire.",
      "domain": "architecture"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "side.surface",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "inside.spatial",
      "note": "contrasts-with",
      "type": "contrasts-with"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "screen.visual"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "exterior",
    "exteriors"
  ],
  "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": "factual",
      "note": "Added 'inside.spatial' as a declared component because the definition and interaction both depend on the concept of 'not inside', which requires 'inside.spatial' to be meaningful. Without it, the dist"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-exterior.spatial"
}