{
  "id": "long.size",
  "term": "long",
  "sense": "size",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 5,
  "arena": "long",
  "domain": "adjective",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a thing whose length is more than most other things",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "length.spatial",
      "big.size"
    ],
    "interaction": "the measured length of a thing exceeds the typical amount, creating a sense of greater size",
    "novel_properties": [
      "greater measured extent",
      "perceived extension beyond norm"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Nile stretches about 6,650 km, longer than any other river on Earth.",
      "domain": "geography"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Great Wall of China extends over 21,000 km, making it the longest human-made structure.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Proxima Centauri b orbits a star 4.24 light-years away, a vast distance for current spacecraft.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "big.size",
      "note": "",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "ancient.temporal",
    "bar.structure",
    "climate.weather",
    "minutes.temporal",
    "overdue.temporal",
    "symmetry-versus-regularity-licence.licence"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "long",
    "longer",
    "longest"
  ],
  "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-long.size"
}