{
  "id": "follows.sequential",
  "term": "follows",
  "sense": "sequential",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 9,
  "arena": "follows",
  "domain": "verb",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to move after something in time with the same order as it happens",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "motion.movement",
      "time.dimension",
      "order.arrangement",
      "happen.event-occurrence"
    ],
    "interaction": "When motion occurs in time, ordered relative to events, the relation of following emerges.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "temporal succession",
      "ordered co-occurrence",
      "directional sequence"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station orbits Earth every 90 minutes, tracing the same path in sequence with each revolution.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2020 U.S. presidential election results were certified state by state in order of vote completion.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "In mitosis, anaphase follows metaphase as chromosomes separate after aligning at the cell's equator.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "motion.movement",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "along.spatial",
    "art.creative",
    "code.information",
    "december.date",
    "dimension.spatial",
    "friday.temporal",
    "game.playful",
    "health.condition",
    "monday.temporal",
    "next.temporal",
    "november.date",
    "october.month",
    "outcome.result",
    "professional.occupation",
    "ripple-effect.stacked",
    "september.calendar",
    "series.ordered",
    "society.social",
    "third.ordinal",
    "wednesday.temporal"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "follow",
    "followed",
    "following",
    "follows"
  ],
  "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 happen.event-occurrence to components since the definition hinges on events unfolding in time, which was implied but missing in declared components."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-follows.sequential"
}