{
  "id": "measurement.quantitative",
  "term": "measurement",
  "sense": "quantitative",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 12,
  "arena": "measurement.quantitative",
  "domain": "quantitative",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "A process that uses a regular pattern applied to a thing's space or size, where the difference is recorded as a numerical quantity.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "regularity.pattern",
      "quantity.numerical",
      "space.extent",
      "size.measurement",
      "application.use",
      "difference.relation",
      "process.general",
      "property.attribute",
      "applying.action",
      "pattern.regularity",
      "recorded.information",
      "records.document",
      "regular.frequency",
      "use.application"
    ],
    "interaction": "A regular pattern is applied to spatial or size extent, and through comparison, a difference emerges that is captured as a numerical property.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "quantified magnitude",
      "measured distinction",
      "recorded numerical difference"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Prototype of the Kilogram in Paris defined mass for 130 years until the 2019 redefinition.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft transmitted telemetry showing 2.7 K cosmic background radiation across interstellar space.",
      "domain": "spaceflight"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 1989–2001 Large Hadron Collider construction required micron-level alignment of 1232 dipole magnets.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "quantity.numerical",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "size.measurement",
      "note": "abstracts",
      "type": "abstracts"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "degree.measurement",
    "legacy-code.unmeasured",
    "meters.measurement",
    "standard.norm",
    "surprise.reaction"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "measure",
    "measured",
    "measurement",
    "measurements",
    "measures",
    "measuring"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "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: records.document, regular.frequency, and use.application, which are required by the definition but absent in the original list. No definitional change needed."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-measurement.quantitative"
}