{
  "id": "located.spatial",
  "term": "located",
  "sense": "spatial",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 12,
  "arena": "located",
  "domain": "spatial",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "be at a point in space",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "points.location",
      "space.extent",
      "point-of-no-return.irreversible"
    ],
    "interaction": "the point and the space make a place, and the irreversible boundary determines persistence within it",
    "novel_properties": [
      "spatial location",
      "persistence condition",
      "irreversible containment"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The city of Venice subsides 1–2 mm per year, altering its position relative to sea level since 421 CE. [engineering]",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Mount Everest's summit rock is at 27°59′17″N, 86°55′31″E, fixed by GPS survey in 2020. [geography]",
      "domain": "geography"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Hubble Space Telescope orbits Earth at 547 km altitude, maintaining its spatial location since 1990. [astronomy]",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "position.spatial",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "chicago.city"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "locate",
    "located",
    "locates",
    "locating"
  ],
  "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": "The original definition 'be at a point in space' implicitly depends on persistence conditions governed by an irreversible threshold, which was missing in the components. As the EMERGENCE RECORD must f"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-located.spatial"
}