{
  "id": "keep.maintenance",
  "term": "keep",
  "sense": "maintenance",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 5,
  "arena": "verb",
  "domain": "common",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to make something persist in a place or state",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "persist.continue",
      "control.ability",
      "make.verb",
      "space.extent",
      "state.condition"
    ],
    "interaction": "control directs the persistence of something across space and time, constraining its state through active maintenance.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "ongoing restraint against change",
      "sustained spatial or condition bound",
      "directed persistence"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station maintains orbit at 400 km altitude through periodic reboosts from docked spacecraft.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Cyanobacteria in Lake Vostok, Antarctica, maintain metabolic activity at -2C using geothermal heat.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Python 2.7 programming language was maintained with security updates until its official end-of-life in 2020.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "control.ability",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "bank.financial",
    "case.container",
    "constraint.limiting",
    "container.object",
    "corruption.process",
    "factor-of-safety.margin",
    "files.digital",
    "harmony.relational",
    "healthy.condition",
    "hold.physical",
    "insurance.financial",
    "integrity.state",
    "life.biological",
    "memory.cognitive",
    "persistence.endurance",
    "precarious.unstable",
    "private.social",
    "proportion.relation",
    "protection.security",
    "records.document",
    "reserved.allocation",
    "save.preservation",
    "storage.physical",
    "store.place",
    "supplies.resource"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "keep",
    "keeping",
    "keeps",
    "kept"
  ],
  "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 to align record with definition; interaction and novel properties updated for coherence."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-keep.maintenance"
}