{
  "id": "home.shelter",
  "term": "home",
  "sense": "shelter",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 4,
  "arena": "home",
  "domain": "common",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "A setting where an arrangement of boundaries persists as a place.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "setting.contextual",
      "structure.arrangement",
      "arrangement.spatial",
      "boundary.limit",
      "persist.continue",
      "space.extent"
    ],
    "interaction": "A setting and an arrangement of boundaries together persist as a place.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "enduring spatial containment",
      "localized persistence",
      "shared continuity of place"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station maintains a pressurized hull at 1 atm, shielding astronauts from vacuum.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Yellowstone's geothermal basins persist as hydrothermal pools within caldera boundaries shaped by volcanic activity.",
      "domain": "geology"
    },
    {
      "text": "A beehive in a hollow oak in Epping Forest retains a stable internal temperature despite outside frost.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "setting.contextual",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "building.structure",
    "family.social",
    "inn.lodging"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "home",
    "homed",
    "homes",
    "homing"
  ],
  "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 to align record with accurate definition."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-home.shelter"
}