{
  "id": "hand.part",
  "term": "hand",
  "sense": "part",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 17,
  "arena": "hand",
  "domain": "physical",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "an arrangement of matter that is a part of a body and enables movement and touch",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "matter.substance",
      "structure.arrangement",
      "motion.movement",
      "arrangement.spatial",
      "body.physical",
      "enables.facilitation",
      "part.relation",
      "touch.together"
    ],
    "interaction": "Matter is structured in space as a physical body part, where arrangement and movement enable tactile interaction and manipulation.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "capacity for touch",
      "functional dexterity",
      "part-whole bodily integration"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The human hand performs precise manipulations using 27 bones and coordinated muscle contractions.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "A robotic arm on the International Space Station grasps cargo with five articulated fingers.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "A violinist’s left hand presses strings against the fingerboard to produce specific pitches during a performance.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "body.physical",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "enables"
    },
    {
      "id": "touch.together",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "watch.tool"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "hand",
    "handed",
    "handing",
    "hands"
  ],
  "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": "components",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive concepts from definition; interaction and novel properties updated for coherence. Definition retained as it accurately reflects emergence without padding or error."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-hand.part"
}