{
  "id": "march.movement",
  "term": "march",
  "sense": "movement",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 4,
  "arena": "march",
  "domain": "movement",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to go in a regular pattern together with others",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "go.movement",
      "regular.frequency",
      "others.distinct-entities",
      "pattern.regularity"
    ],
    "interaction": "going repeatedly in a regular pattern together with others creates coordinated movement through a place",
    "novel_properties": [
      "coordinated timing",
      "shared direction",
      "collective rhythm"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2017, thousands marched from Washington, D.C. to protest travel restrictions, moving block by block in unison down Constitution Avenue.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Army recruits at Fort Bragg march in step during drill, each platoon maintaining identical stride length and cadence under shouted commands.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom gathered over 250,000 people who moved collectively toward the Lincoln Memorial.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "march",
    "marched",
    "marches",
    "marching"
  ],
  "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 'others.distinct-entities' and 'pattern.regularity' to align record with definition. Definition remains unchanged as it accurately reflects the emergent concept."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-march.movement"
}