{
  "id": "frozen.state",
  "term": "frozen",
  "sense": "state",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 18,
  "arena": "emergence theory",
  "domain": "window ontology",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "a parameter whose window is narrower than most, forming a wall that holds a thing in place so that drift cannot move it, allowing a window at a higher level to open.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "parameter.condition",
      "window.range",
      "wall.range-end",
      "drift.aimless",
      "narrow.spatial",
      "hold.physical",
      "motion.movement",
      "allow.permission",
      "form.shape",
      "open.spatial",
      "level.spatial",
      "space.extent",
      "enables.facilitation",
      "high.spatial",
      "occurs.event",
      "range.spatial"
    ],
    "interaction": "Feedback between a narrow parameter range and an immovable boundary prevents drift, allowing higher-level ranges to become accessible by holding lower-level states fixed.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "barrier to movement",
      "enabling of higher-level ranges",
      "fixed lower-level state"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station maintains a cabin pressure of 101.3 kPa despite vacuum exposure, enabling crew survival.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Neurons in the hippocampus fire at specific locations, creating a stable cognitive map even during aimless wandering.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "Bitcoin's proof-of-work consensus freezes transaction order every ten minutes, anchoring the blockchain against drift.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "narrow.spatial",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "used in the same window ontology"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "frozen"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.8,
    "sources": [
      "Sample/hundred-words-six-terms.md"
    ],
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "factual",
      "note": "Definition was factually incomplete—it leaned on 'enables.facilitation', 'high.spatial', 'occurs.event', and 'range.spatial' without including them. These are constitutive and have been added. Definit"
    },
    "restored": {
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "from": "Sample/hundred-words-six-terms.md",
      "replaced": "A parameter whose range is narrower than most, forming a barrier that holds a thing in place so movement cannot occur, enabling a range at a higher level to open."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-frozen.state"
}