{
  "id": "fine.quality",
  "term": "fine",
  "sense": "quality",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "fine",
  "domain": "emergence",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "A state or condition that is both precisely what is required and commonly encountered.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "just.exact",
      "usual.common",
      "required.obligation",
      "state.condition"
    ],
    "interaction": "just.exact and usual.common together form a condition that is both accurate in detail and widely occurring, grounded in what is necessary.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "necessary precision",
      "widespread adequacy",
      "condition meeting expectations"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station maintains exactly 1 atm pressure despite frequent airlock cycles and micro-leaks.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The human kidney filters blood to a pH of 7.4, adjusting for dietary acids and metabolic byproducts.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Federal Reserve hits its 2% inflation target in 17 of 24 quarterly measurements between 2000 and 2006.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "quality.value",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "fine",
    "fined",
    "finer",
    "fines",
    "finest",
    "fining"
  ],
  "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": "components",
      "note": "Added required.obligation and state.condition to align components with definition; removed redundant or non-constitutive entries."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-fine.quality"
}