{
  "id": "independent.attribute",
  "term": "independent",
  "sense": "attribute",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "common",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a thing that is not a part of another thing and does not require another thing",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "part.relation",
      "required.obligation"
    ],
    "interaction": "When a thing is not a part of another thing and does not require another thing, it remain alone",
    "novel_properties": [
      "no reliance on others",
      "self‑governance"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Svalbard Global Seed Vault operates without reliance on any nation's power grid, using permafrost for cooling. [engineering]",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Neptune's orbit remained stable after Voyager 2's 1989 flyby, unaffected by the probe's departure. [astronomy]",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "Bitcoin continued processing transactions after Satoshi Nakamoto vanished in 2011. [computing]",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "alone.state",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "independent things are a kind of alone state"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "independent",
    "independents"
  ],
  "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-independent.attribute"
}