{
  "id": "major.importance",
  "term": "major",
  "sense": "importance",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 11,
  "arena": "lexicon",
  "domain": "adjective",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a thing that is both great in size and important",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "great.size",
      "important.significance"
    ],
    "interaction": "when a thing is both great in size and important, it becomes major",
    "novel_properties": [
      "greater prominence",
      "higher rank"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2020 U.S. presidential election saw over 159 million ballots cast, the highest turnout in 120 years.",
      "domain": "politics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Large Hadron Collider spans 27 kilometers across the France-Switzerland border and discovered the Higgs boson.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Amazon Rainforest covers 5.5 million square kilometers and harbors 10% of Earth's known species.",
      "domain": "ecology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "great.size",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "important.significance",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "major",
    "majors"
  ],
  "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-major.importance"
}