{
  "id": "mature.development",
  "term": "mature",
  "sense": "development",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 8,
  "arena": "mature",
  "domain": "emergence",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "when a thing has more growth and age than most things and shows big size",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "growth.development",
      "age.temporal",
      "big.size",
      "show.visual",
      "size.measurement"
    ],
    "interaction": "growth adds matter in space through time and age measures how long that change persists, together they produce a visible magnitude that indicates developed extent",
    "novel_properties": [
      "visible maturity",
      "developed extent",
      "comparative physical prominence"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Sequoia National Park's General Sherman tree reaches 83 meters and is over 2,000 years old, the largest known living tree by volume.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station reached full operational capacity in 2011 after a decade of assembly and continuous human habitation.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "IBM, founded in 1911, grew to over 350,000 employees by the 1980s, dominating mainframe computing for decades.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "august.dignified",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "young.age",
      "note": "contrasts-with",
      "type": "contrasts-with"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "mature",
    "matured",
    "matures",
    "maturing"
  ],
  "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 'show.visual' and 'size.measurement' to components because the definition hinges on both visibility and spatial extent as perceptible, emergent outcomes of growth and age. Interaction rephrased "
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-mature.development"
}