{
  "id": "light.visual",
  "term": "light",
  "sense": "visual",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 8,
  "arena": "light",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a visual state of energy that moves through space over time",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "energy.capacity",
      "space.extent",
      "time.dimension",
      "motion.movement",
      "state.condition",
      "visual.perceptual"
    ],
    "interaction": "energy, space, and time interact through motion and condition to sustain a visible pattern over time.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "persistent visual presence",
      "spatiotemporal motion of energy",
      "observable state change"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Sunlight travels 150 million kilometers from the Sun to Earth in about 8 minutes and 20 seconds.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "The beam of light from the 1858 Cape Hatteras Lighthouse illuminated ships up to 20 miles away at night.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Fireflies in the Great Smoky Mountains produce yellow-green light flashes during mating season in May.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "energy.capacity",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "blue.color",
    "camera.visual",
    "fire.combustion",
    "flash.light",
    "screen.visual",
    "star.celestial",
    "sun.celestial",
    "yellow.color"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "light",
    "lighted",
    "lighting",
    "lights",
    "lit"
  ],
  "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 (motion.movement, state.condition, visual.perceptual) to align record with definition."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-light.visual"
}