{
  "id": "location.spatial",
  "term": "location",
  "sense": "spatial",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 12,
  "arena": "lexicon",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a point where a thing is in space",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "points.location",
      "space.extent"
    ],
    "interaction": "a point is placed inside a space extent, creating a distinct place",
    "novel_properties": [
      "specific place",
      "reference point"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Mount Everest's summit is fixed at 27.9881°N, 86.9250°E in the Himalayas.",
      "domain": "geography"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Large Hadron Collider keeps proton beams confined to a 27-kilometer ring at CERN.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake shifted Japan's Honshu island by 2.4 meters eastward.",
      "domain": "geology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "points.location",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "site.location",
      "note": "abstracts",
      "type": "abstracts"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "below.spatial",
    "delivery.service",
    "entry.place",
    "foreign.geographic",
    "look.visual",
    "road.transport",
    "spatial.location",
    "street.path",
    "tour.travel",
    "toward.spatial",
    "upon.spatial",
    "via.route",
    "visit.social"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "location",
    "locations"
  ],
  "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-location.spatial"
}