{
  "id": "list.ordered",
  "term": "list",
  "sense": "ordered",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 9,
  "arena": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "domain": "semantic",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a structure of pieces that are in an order",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "piece.portion",
      "structure.arrangement",
      "order.arrangement"
    ],
    "interaction": "the pieces are arranged in a sequence constrained by a narrow window of positions to form a structure",
    "novel_properties": [
      "sequential dependency",
      "position specificity",
      "bounded ordering"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The periodic table arranges 118 elements by atomic number, electron configuration, and recurring chemical properties.",
      "domain": "chemistry"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Fibonacci sequence defines numbers where each term is the sum of the two preceding ones, starting from 0 and 1.",
      "domain": "mathematics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The U.S. Presidential Line of Succession specifies the order in which officials assume the presidency if the office is vacated.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "structure.arrangement",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "sets.grouped",
      "note": "contrasts-with",
      "type": "contrasts-with"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "account.financial",
    "calendar.tool",
    "index.reference",
    "last.order",
    "menu.list",
    "newsletter.communication",
    "register.record"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "list",
    "listed",
    "listing",
    "listings",
    "lists"
  ],
  "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": "factual",
      "note": "added order.arrangement as a component because the definition emphasizes orderedness, which depends on a narrow window of placement; without it, the definition refers to something not fully grounded i"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-list.ordered"
}