{
  "id": "final.order",
  "term": "final",
  "sense": "order",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 11,
  "arena": "emergencelexicon",
  "domain": "common",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "the part that is after all other parts in sequence",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "last.order",
      "part.relation",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "when a part follows all other parts in order, it becomes the final one through temporal succession",
    "novel_properties": [
      "endpoint of a sequence",
      "completeness of ordering",
      "temporal finality"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The final movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony lasts about seven minutes and follows three preceding movements.",
      "domain": "music"
    },
    {
      "text": "In the 2020 Mars Perseverance rover landing sequence, the 'sky crane' maneuver was the final step before touchdown.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The signing of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919, marked the final act formally ending World War I.",
      "domain": "history"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "last.order",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "first.order",
      "note": "contrasts-with",
      "type": "contrasts-with"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "final",
    "finals"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "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 corrected to clarify temporal aspect; time.dimension added as it is essential for 'final' ordering"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-final.order"
}