{
  "id": "full.state",
  "term": "full",
  "sense": "state",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 10,
  "arena": "full",
  "domain": "emergence",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a state where the space of something is occupied by matter and no space remains unoccupied",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "space.extent",
      "matter.substance",
      "occupied.spatial",
      "unoccupied.spatial",
      "state.condition",
      "persist.continue"
    ],
    "interaction": "Matter occupies the space of the thing through time, leaving no unoccupied part, forming a persistent condition.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "complete spatial occupancy",
      "no empty regions",
      "persisted saturation"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station's cabin reached full pressure after air pumps completed refilling from cargo module tanks.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Lake Powell hit full capacity in 1980 after spring runoff filled the reservoir behind Glen Canyon Dam.",
      "domain": "geography"
    },
    {
      "text": "A red blood cell becomes full when hemoglobin molecules occupy all available intracellular space for oxygen transport.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "state.condition",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "complete.state",
    "stranger.unmodeled"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "full"
  ],
  "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": "factual",
      "note": "Definition was factually correct but relied on omitted components; components updated to reflect full emergence structure. Definition retained per preference (1)."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-full.state"
}