{
  "id": "high.spatial",
  "term": "high",
  "sense": "spatial",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 4,
  "arena": "high",
  "domain": "adjective",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "When a thing is more up in space than most other things.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "big.size",
      "rise.movement",
      "space.extent"
    ],
    "interaction": "Big size together with up movement makes a thing be more up part of space.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "relative vertical position",
      "spatial dominance",
      "elevated placement"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Mount Everest rises 8,848 meters above sea level, the highest point on Earth's surface.",
      "domain": "geography"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Burj Khalifa in Dubai stands 828 meters tall, surpassing all other buildings.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station orbits at an average altitude of 408 kilometers above Earth.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "above.spatial",
    "college.education",
    "frozen.state",
    "low.spatial",
    "super.intensifier"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "high",
    "higher",
    "highest",
    "highly"
  ],
  "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 space.extent (L0) as a foundational concept the definition relies on but was missing from components."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-high.spatial"
}