{
  "id": "geographic.spatial",
  "term": "geographic",
  "sense": "spatial",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "everyday",
  "domain": "geography",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "about a region or area of the world",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "region.spatial",
      "area.spatial",
      "world.place"
    ],
    "interaction": "region and area together are parts of the world",
    "novel_properties": [
      "world‑wide scope",
      "spatial relation",
      "earth‑based context"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Great Wall of China spans 21,196 kilometers across northern Chinese territories, built to defend against invasions.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Amazon Rainforest covers 5.5 million square kilometers across nine countries in South America, forming a distinct ecological zone.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "GPS satellites use precise geographic coordinates to triangulate positions on Earth’s surface within a meter.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "geographic"
  ],
  "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-geographic.spatial"
}