{
  "id": "general.broad",
  "term": "general",
  "sense": "broad",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 3,
  "arena": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "domain": "common",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a thing that is about many other thing and not about one thing",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "others.distinct-entities",
      "difference.relation"
    ],
    "interaction": "many other thing together with their difference be a state that is for them",
    "novel_properties": [
      "broad applicability",
      "lack of specificity",
      "shared scope"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The United States Constitution organizes government around enumerated powers while adapting through amendments and judicial interpretation since 1789.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Linux kernel supports thousands of hardware devices through abstracted drivers, not hardcoded for any single machine.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "Ecosystems in the Amazon Basin regulate climate and sustain biodiversity across millions of species interactions.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "pattern.regularity",
      "note": "abstracts",
      "type": "abstracts"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "big-picture.abstraction",
    "high-level.abstraction",
    "on-the-ground.local"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "general"
  ],
  "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-general.broad"
}