{
  "id": "further.degree",
  "term": "further",
  "sense": "degree",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 1,
  "arena": "further",
  "domain": "adverb",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "more space than before",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "space.extent",
      "time.dimension",
      "pattern.regularity"
    ],
    "interaction": "space is more than before",
    "novel_properties": [
      "more quantity",
      "more extent"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Atacama Large Millimeter Array's antennas were relocated to positions up to 16 km apart to increase resolution.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "After the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, Japan's coastline shifted 4.4 meters eastward due to tectonic displacement.",
      "domain": "geology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2020 expansion of the Panama Canal allowed ships up to 55 meters wide to pass, 14 meters wider than before.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "space.extent",
      "note": "abstracts",
      "type": "abstracts"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "multiple.quantity",
    "rather.comparative",
    "super.intensifier"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "further",
    "furthered",
    "furthering",
    "furthers"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-further.degree"
}