{
  "id": "in-sync.harmony",
  "term": "in sync",
  "sense": "harmony",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 8,
  "arena": "coordination",
  "domain": "social",
  "style": "folk",
  "definition": "A state where the interaction of parts produces a regular pattern that persists through time, even though no single part contains the whole pattern, and the boundary of the whole is not the same as the boundary of any part.",
  "folk_gloss": "People are acting together smoothly without conflict.",
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "interaction.process",
      "pattern.regularity",
      "persist.continue",
      "boundary.limit",
      "part.relation",
      "whole.complete"
    ],
    "interaction": "interaction.process",
    "novel_properties": [
      "pattern.regularity",
      "persist.continue"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The synchronized flashing of fireflies in the forests of Southeast Asia creates repeating light patterns across hectares of jungle.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The alternating current in the European power grid remains frequency-locked at 50 Hz across multiple national grids.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Traders on the New York Stock Exchange floor moved in coordinated rhythm during the 1929 crash, amplifying price drops without central direction.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "in sync"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "phrases:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.7,
    "sources": [
      "folk phrase — the whole exceeding its parts"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-in-sync.harmony"
}