{
  "id": "later.temporal",
  "term": "later",
  "sense": "temporal",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 5,
  "arena": "temporal",
  "domain": "time",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "after now",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "time.dimension",
      "future.temporal"
    ],
    "interaction": "the point in time after the present moment creates a later moment",
    "novel_properties": [
      "temporal offset beyond present",
      "relative ordering after reference"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Voyager 1 probe will exit the heliosphere in 2025, 48 years after its 1977 launch.",
      "domain": "spaceflight"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2020 Australian bushfires released carbon that permafrost thawed in 2030 will later emit as methane.",
      "domain": "climate"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Y2K remediation effort in 1999 fixed code so systems wouldn’t fail at 00:00 on January 1, 2000.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "future.temporal",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "id": "early.temporal",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": ""
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "chaos.unpredictable-drift",
    "investment.financial",
    "memory.cognitive",
    "scaffold.temporary",
    "soon.temporal",
    "storage.physical"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "later"
  ],
  "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-later.temporal"
}