{
  "id": "extreme.position",
  "term": "extreme",
  "sense": "position",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 12,
  "arena": "parameter",
  "domain": "window",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "A parameter whose value is near a wall, but not so near that the wall's presence dominates.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "parameter.condition",
      "wall.range-end",
      "drift.aimless",
      "near.spatial",
      "value.worth"
    ],
    "interaction": "A parameter condition whose value is near a spatial wall range-end may undergo aimless drift, sustained by worth valuation that prevents dominance by proximity.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "precarious stability",
      "proximity without dominance",
      "drift vulnerability"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station maintains an orbit at 400 km, close to atmospheric drag but not low enough for rapid decay.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The S&P 500 hovered near 3,000 points for weeks in August 2019, reacting sharply to small changes but not breaking past psychological resistance.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "Neanderthal mitochondrial DNA frequencies in modern Eurasian populations hover near 2%, detectable but not dominant.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "extreme",
    "extremes"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.8,
    "sources": [
      "Sample/abstract-concepts-as-ranges.md"
    ],
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "The definition remains unchanged as canonical. Components updated to reflect constitutive concepts actually referenced: near.spatial (for 'near a wall') and value.worth (for 'value') were added; all o"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-extreme.position"
}