{
  "id": "medium.level",
  "term": "medium",
  "sense": "level",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 9,
  "arena": "emergence",
  "domain": "window",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "a parameter whose window is wide enough that what passes through it is unchanged",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "parameter.condition",
      "window.range",
      "wide.spatial",
      "enough.sufficient"
    ],
    "interaction": "The condition's range widens sufficiently so that variation within it does not alter the passing phenomenon.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "tolerance to variation",
      "structural permissiveness",
      "unconstrained parameter flow"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Arecibo Observatory's 305-meter dish reflected radio waves of up to 10 cm wavelength without distortion.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Antarctic ice cores preserve atmospheric gases from millennia past in air bubbles smaller than 1 mm.",
      "domain": "geology"
    },
    {
      "text": "IPv4 packet headers allow data payloads up to 65,535 bytes without fragmentation under standard MTU rules.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "blue.color"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "medium"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.8,
    "sources": [
      "Sample/abstract-concepts-as-ranges.md"
    ],
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Removed 'drift.aimless' — definition does not depend on randomness or directionlessness of change. Added 'wide.spatial' and 'enough.sufficient' to support 'wide enough'. 'windows.opening' was omitted "
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-medium.level"
}