{
  "id": "far.distance",
  "term": "far",
  "sense": "distance",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 2,
  "arena": "everyday usage",
  "domain": "spatial",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "more space than before",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "space.extent",
      "difference.relation",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "when a place has more space than another place across time",
    "novel_properties": [
      "relative spatial increase",
      "temporal comparison"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Voyager 1 was 15 billion miles from Earth in 2023, farther than any other human-made object.",
      "domain": "spaceflight"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Moon drifts 3.8 cm farther from Earth each year due to tidal forces.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2020, Betelgeuse dimmed visibly when a dust cloud moved farther from its surface.",
      "domain": "astrophysics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "further.degree",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "far denotes a further degree of space"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "birds-eye-view.abstraction",
    "collapse.failure"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "far",
    "farther",
    "farthest"
  ],
  "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": "Definition was factually incomplete as it implied change over time but omitted time.dimension from components. Added time.dimension to resolve coherence gap."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-far.distance"
}