{
  "id": "include.addition",
  "term": "include",
  "sense": "addition",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 5,
  "arena": "include",
  "domain": "verb",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to add a thing as a part of another thing",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "add.operation",
      "part.relation"
    ],
    "interaction": "adding a thing and marking it as a part of another thing together create the concept of inclusion",
    "novel_properties": [
      "combined identity",
      "membership relation",
      "collective belonging"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station added Node 3 in 2010, integrating life support and exercise systems.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Python 3.5 added the '@' operator for matrix multiplication in its 2015 release.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 19th Amendment included women in the U.S. right to vote, ratified in 1920.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "add.operation",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "entertainment.leisure",
    "europe.region",
    "library.information",
    "regret.emotional"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "include",
    "included",
    "includes",
    "including"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-include.addition"
}