{
  "id": "lost.state",
  "term": "lost",
  "sense": "state",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 3,
  "arena": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "domain": "common",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "when a thing that was here is now not here and its place is not here",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "loss.economic",
      "off.state",
      "change.process",
      "space.extent",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "when a thing is loss and is off, its place is not here",
    "novel_properties": [
      "absence in a location",
      "discontinuity in time",
      "unlocated presence"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2011 Tohoku earthquake shifted Japan's coastline by up to 4.4 meters, erasing beaches visible in pre-2011 satellite images.",
      "domain": "geology"
    },
    {
      "text": "Blockbuster Inc. closed its last three U.S. stores in 2014, leaving no physical rental locations after 20 years of nationwide presence.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Viking 1 lander stopped transmitting from Mars on November 13, 1982, after 2,296 sols of operation.",
      "domain": "spaceflight"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "state.condition",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "lost-the-plot.drift"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "lose",
    "loses",
    "losing",
    "lost"
  ],
  "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": "components",
      "note": "Added space.extent and time.dimension as constitutive; they ground the notions of 'here' and 'not the same after' in the definition. Definition unchanged."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-lost.state"
}