{
  "id": "front.spatial",
  "term": "front",
  "sense": "spatial",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 15,
  "arena": "front.spatial",
  "domain": "physical",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "the side of a thing that is toward the first direction",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "side.surface",
      "direction.spatial",
      "first.order",
      "toward.spatial"
    ],
    "interaction": "the side of a thing is oriented toward the direction that comes first in a sequence and serves as a leading boundary",
    "novel_properties": [
      "leading aspect",
      "oriented boundary",
      "primary facing"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The bow of the RMS Titanic faced forward as it sailed toward New York on its maiden voyage in 1912.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "In human anatomy, the anterior surface of the heart faces forward when the body is in standard anatomical position.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "During the Battle of Stalingrad, the Soviet 62nd Army held the front line against German advances in urban combat.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "side.surface",
      "note": "is-a side.surface",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "back.spatial",
      "note": "contrasts-with back.spatial",
      "type": "contrasts-with"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "face.body"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "front",
    "fronted",
    "fronting",
    "fronts"
  ],
  "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 first.order and toward.spatial which are essential to the definition but were missing in components; relevance.core is not constitutive and was correctly omitted."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-front.spatial"
}