{
  "id": "files.digital",
  "term": "files",
  "sense": "digital",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 10,
  "arena": "files.digital",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a piece of data with an arrangement that is kept in digital form",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "data.information",
      "structure.arrangement",
      "digital.electrical",
      "arrangement.spatial",
      "keep.maintenance",
      "piece.portion",
      "form.shape"
    ],
    "interaction": "data as organized in space is maintained using distinct electrical patterns shaped into a persistent form",
    "novel_properties": [
      "file identity",
      "structured digital persistence",
      "retrievable data form"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 1977 Voyager Golden Record preserved 115 images and audio in digital form for interstellar transmission.",
      "domain": "space"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Wayback Machine archives billions of web pages daily, preserving their structure and content since 1996.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "Patient MRI scans are stored as DICOM files at Massachusetts General Hospital, maintained across decades.",
      "domain": "medicine"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "content.material",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "digital.electrical",
      "note": "abstracts",
      "type": "abstracts"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "file",
    "filed",
    "files",
    "filing"
  ],
  "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 'form.shape' as it is leaned on in the definition and needed for the notion of a distinct, persistent digital form. Definition remains accurate and concise."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-files.digital"
}