{
  "id": "friday.temporal",
  "term": "friday",
  "sense": "temporal",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 15,
  "arena": "emergence",
  "domain": "common",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "the day that follows the fourth day of a week",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "days.temporal",
      "week.temporal",
      "four.cardinal",
      "follows.sequential",
      "fourth.ordinal"
    ],
    "interaction": "The day follows the fourth day of a week and is the five part of the week.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "fifth position in week",
      "ordinal succession",
      "weekly cycle alignment"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "On Friday, July 5, 2024, the New York Stock Exchange closed for Independence Day weekend.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Mars rover Perseverance executed a scheduled software update on Friday, March 8, 2024, following NASA's weekly operations cycle.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "In Tel Aviv, garbage collection resumed on Friday, January 12, 2024, after a two-day strike halted city services.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "days.temporal",
      "note": "",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "saturday.temporal"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "friday",
    "fridays"
  ],
  "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 missing but constitutive concepts: follows.sequential and fourth.ordinal, which are necessary to explain the ordinal relationship in the weekly cycle."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-friday.temporal"
}