{
  "id": "magazine.publication",
  "term": "magazine",
  "sense": "publication",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 17,
  "arena": "lexicon",
  "domain": "emergence",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a set of pages printed with content and bound together",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "page.sheet",
      "content.material",
      "paper.material",
      "boundary.limit",
      "print.material",
      "sets.grouped"
    ],
    "interaction": "pages are printed with content and bound together, forming a regular collection of articles",
    "novel_properties": [
      "regular publication schedule",
      "thematic coherence across articles",
      "distinct section identity within a bound format"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "National Geographic printed its May 1970 issue on glossy paper with photographs of the Apollo 13 mission.",
      "domain": "publishing"
    },
    {
      "text": "The New Yorker assembled 120 pages of reporting and cartoons into its February 14, 2022 edition.",
      "domain": "journalism"
    },
    {
      "text": "Wired Issue 28.03, released in March 2020, covered AI ethics and pandemic tech on coated paper stock.",
      "domain": "technology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "products.goods",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "magazine is a type of good"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "magazine",
    "magazines"
  ],
  "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 missing constitutive concepts: boundary.limit, print.material, and sets.grouped, as they are essential for pages, printing, and set-formation in the definition."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-magazine.publication"
}