{
  "id": "look.visual",
  "term": "look",
  "sense": "visual",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 15,
  "arena": "definition",
  "domain": "emergence",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "the process of perceiving a visual entity from a position with directional orientation",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "see.visual",
      "points.location",
      "orientation.spatial",
      "entities.object",
      "location.spatial",
      "process.general",
      "visual.perceptual",
      "position.spatial"
    ],
    "interaction": "when a location with directional orientation enables perception of a visual entity, seeing occurs",
    "novel_properties": [
      "directed visual access",
      "position-based perception",
      "spatial observational stance"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Hubble Space Telescope locks its gaze on distant galaxies by precisely aligning its position and orientation in orbit.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "A sentry at the Pentagon entrance scans the approach road, facing north with binoculars trained on vehicle movements.",
      "domain": "military"
    },
    {
      "text": "A self-driving car's camera system detects a pedestrian stepping off the curb by orienting its sensors toward the crosswalk.",
      "domain": "robotics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "see.visual",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "browse.visual"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "look",
    "looked",
    "looking",
    "looks"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "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 'position.spatial' to components; 'visual.peruptual' was corrected to 'visual.perceptual' which exists."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-look.visual"
}