{
  "id": "hot.temperature",
  "term": "hot",
  "sense": "temperature",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 19,
  "arena": "hot",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a state where a matter has more energy capacity than usual for that kind of matter",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "energy.capacity",
      "state.condition",
      "matter.substance",
      "capacity.size",
      "pattern.regularity",
      "potential.capacity",
      "usual.common"
    ],
    "interaction": "The capacity.size and potential.capacity modulate energy.capacity within matter.substance, conditioned on state.condition and what is usual.common, producing a deviation marked by heightened energy load.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "elevated energy load",
      "deviation from typical capacity",
      "persistent energetic state"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Sun's core reaches 15 million °C, sustaining fusion against radiative cooling.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "Death Valley hit 56.7°C in 1913, the highest reliably recorded air temperature on Earth.",
      "domain": "geography"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Fukushima reactor cores exceeded 2000°C during meltdown after cooling failed.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "property.attribute",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "heat.thermal",
    "star.celestial"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "hot"
  ],
  "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: capacity.size, pattern.regularity, potential.capacity, usual.common. Definition remained correct and unchanged."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-hot.temperature"
}