{
  "id": "legacy.enduring",
  "term": "legacy",
  "sense": "enduring",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 18,
  "arena": "general",
  "domain": "emergent",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "a window held open after the system that opened it has left its own",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "window.range",
      "drift.aimless",
      "parameter.condition",
      "maintenance.upkeep",
      "held.grip",
      "system.organized",
      "time.dimension",
      "open.spatial",
      "leave.movement",
      "hold.physical"
    ],
    "interaction": "The system maintains the window's open state within a viable parameter range until its departure, after which maintenance ceases and drift may push the parameter toward closure.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "persisting openness beyond agency",
      "post-maintenance parameter drift",
      "unattended window state"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Voyager 1 probe still transmits data 45 years after its launch, powered by decaying plutonium-238.",
      "domain": "space exploration"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Internet Protocol continues to route packets globally, decades after its original architects retired.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Svalbard Global Seed Vault preserves over 1.2 million seed samples without active human tending between deposits.",
      "domain": "agriculture"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "maintenance.upkeep",
      "type": "enables",
      "note": "maintenance can sustain a window"
    },
    {
      "id": "drift.aimless",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "unmaintained systems drift"
    },
    {
      "id": "parameter.condition",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "a parameter may persist without being maintained"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "legacies",
    "legacy"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.8,
    "sources": [
      "Sample/hundred-words-six-terms.md"
    ],
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Removed 'wall.range-end' and 'windows.opening' (not essential to the definition); added 'hold.physical' (necessary for 'held'). Kept only components that are directly implicated in the endurance of an"
    },
    "restored": {
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "from": "Sample/hundred-words-six-terms.md",
      "replaced": "a window kept open after the system that opened it has departed, sustained by maintenance that preserves the condition within a viable range"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-legacy.enduring"
}