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  "id": "lot.quantity",
  "term": "lot",
  "sense": "quantity",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 8,
  "arena": "lot",
  "domain": "general",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a large quantity of something",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "quantity.numerical",
      "large.size"
    ],
    "interaction": "the quantity is larger than a usual quantity",
    "novel_properties": [
      "relative magnitude",
      "perceived abundance"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Amazon rainforest recycles 20 billion tons of water daily through transpiration.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2020 Beirut explosion released energy equivalent to 1.1 kilotons of TNT.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Linux kernel had over 28 million lines of code in 2023.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "quantity.numerical",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "large.size",
      "note": "abstracts",
      "type": "abstracts"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "fast.speed"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "lot",
    "lots"
  ],
  "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-lot.quantity"
}