{
  "id": "format.layout",
  "term": "format",
  "sense": "layout",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 13,
  "arena": "formation",
  "domain": "lexico",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a structure of parts arranged in space according to a repeating pattern",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "structure.arrangement",
      "pattern.regularity",
      "position.spatial",
      "repeats.action",
      "space.extent"
    ],
    "interaction": "The parts are positioned in space such that their arrangement repeats consistently, forming a coherent layout.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "spatial order",
      "repeated structure",
      "organized layout"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 1987 Montreal Protocol standardized CFC phaseout schedules across 197 countries to restore the ozone layer.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Intel 8086 CPU organized memory in segmented format, each segment holding 64KB at fixed offsets.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "The crystalline lattice of quartz repeats silicon and oxygen atoms in a hexagonal pattern across kilometers of granite.",
      "domain": "geology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "structure.arrangement",
      "note": "",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "format",
    "formats",
    "formatted",
    "formatting"
  ],
  "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 include spatial positioning and repetition; added missing constitutive components that ground the emergence in space and repetition."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-format.layout"
}