{
  "id": "holes.empty-regions",
  "term": "holes",
  "sense": "empty-regions",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "space.extent",
  "domain": "physical",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "Spaces where matter is not, but which are within or surrounded by matter that defines a boundary.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "space.extent",
      "boundary.limit",
      "matter.substance",
      "defines.verb",
      "surrounded.enclosed"
    ],
    "interaction": "Matter arranges to form boundaries around regions of space, excluding matter from within them.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "enclosed emptiness",
      "defined void",
      "boundary-contained absence"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The void inside a soap bubble is bounded by a thin film of soapy water, forming a spherical empty region in air.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The atrium in the Centre Pompidou in Paris is an open space enclosed by structural walls and floors, defining a vertical hole through six levels.",
      "domain": "architecture"
    },
    {
      "text": "A cache miss in the L3 cache of an Intel Core i9-13900K processor leaves a temporary data hole during CPU execution.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "socket.electrical",
      "type": "enables",
      "note": "holes allow plugs to come into contact with electricity"
    },
    {
      "id": "boundary.limit",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "holes are places where a boundary is interrupted"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "golf.sport",
    "plug.electrical",
    "socket.electrical",
    "thread.material",
    "unoccupied.spatial",
    "windows.opening"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "hole",
    "holes"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added 'defines.verb' and 'surrounded.enclosed' to components as they are constitutive; definition remains accurate and unchanged."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-holes.empty-regions"
}