{
  "id": "late.temporal",
  "term": "late",
  "sense": "temporal",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 3,
  "arena": "temporal",
  "domain": "time.dimension",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "after previous usual time",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "previous.temporal",
      "time.dimension",
      "usual.common"
    ],
    "interaction": "The usual occurrence of a thing in time is expected; when it happens after that expected time, it is late.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "temporal deviation",
      "expectation violation",
      "delay relative to norm"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2020 Tokyo Olympics began on July 23, 2021, one year after the scheduled start date due to the pandemic.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Halley's Comet appeared in 1986, nine years after its previous observed passage in 1977.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "The New Horizons spacecraft reached Pluto in 2015, nine and a half years after its 2006 launch.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "time.dimension",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "a temporal concept"
    },
    {
      "id": "early.temporal",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "opposite timing"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "lag.temporal"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "late"
  ],
  "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 'usual.common' to components because 'usual' is essential to the meaning of 'late'. Definition remains correct and unchanged."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-late.temporal"
}