{
  "id": "flash.light",
  "term": "flash",
  "sense": "light",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 9,
  "arena": "emergence",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a short light that occurs in a place",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "light.visual",
      "change.process"
    ],
    "interaction": "light occurs after change in a place",
    "novel_properties": [
      "briefness",
      "high intensity"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "A camera flash emits a 1-millisecond burst of light when the shutter button is pressed.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Lightning during the 1994 Central Florida thunderstorm lit the sky for 0.2 seconds.",
      "domain": "meteorology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The emergency strobe on Apollo 13's reentry module activated for 3 seconds at atmospheric entry.",
      "domain": "aerospace"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "light.visual",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "flash",
    "flashed",
    "flashes",
    "flashing"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-flash.light"
}