{
  "id": "increase.quantity",
  "term": "increase",
  "sense": "quantity",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 3,
  "arena": "increase",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "when a thing changes so its size is more than before",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "change.process",
      "difference.relation",
      "size.measurement",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "A change over time creates a difference that makes the size greater.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "greater magnitude",
      "temporal comparison of extent"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Amazon River's discharge increased from 180,000 m³/s to 230,000 m³/s during the 2023 flood season.",
      "domain": "geography"
    },
    {
      "text": "Apple's iPhone production increased from 47 million to 52 million units in Q4 2022 after supply chain repairs.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The neutron flux in Reactor B at Hanford increased from 1e12 to 3e12 n/cm²/s during the 1945 power ramp-up.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "change.process",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "increase is a kind of change"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "benefits.advantage",
    "cancer.disease",
    "summer.season"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "increase",
    "increased",
    "increases",
    "increasing"
  ],
  "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 'size.measurement' and 'time.dimension' to align with the existing definition, which correctly describes the emergence of increase in quantity."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-increase.quantity"
}