{
  "id": "meaning.significance",
  "term": "meaning",
  "sense": "significance",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 8,
  "arena": "meaning",
  "domain": "significance",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a pattern of knowledge that differs from a state",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "information.knowledge",
      "difference.relation",
      "state.condition",
      "knowledge.cognitive",
      "pattern.regularity"
    ],
    "interaction": "knowledge and a state have difference, and this makes a pattern",
    "novel_properties": [
      "discernible contrast",
      "cognitive distinction",
      "persistent irregularity"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Library of Alexandria preserved Hellenistic astronomical records until its destruction in 48 BCE.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Voyager 1 probe carries a Golden Record with encoded human languages and music as of 1977.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "The periodic table organizes elements by atomic number, revealing reactivity patterns across chemical families.",
      "domain": "chemistry"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "information.knowledge",
      "note": "abstracts",
      "type": "abstracts"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "art.creative",
    "concise.linguistic",
    "express.communication",
    "ideas.cognitive",
    "important.significance",
    "language.communication",
    "mean.signify",
    "purpose.goal",
    "reason.causal",
    "sign.symbolic",
    "statement.communication",
    "story.narrative",
    "terms.language",
    "words.language"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "meaning",
    "meanings"
  ],
  "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 'knowledge.cognitive' and 'pattern.regularity' to align with the definition's reliance on cognitive knowledge and repetitive discernment. Definition remained accura"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-meaning.significance"
}