{
  "id": "meeting.social",
  "term": "meeting",
  "sense": "social",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "meeting",
  "domain": "social",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "people together in a place at a time to interact",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "people.social",
      "space.extent",
      "time.dimension",
      "interaction.process",
      "interacting.social"
    ],
    "interaction": "people are in a place at a time and interact through mutual touch, changing each other over time",
    "novel_properties": [
      "shared social presence",
      "reciprocal influence",
      "temporal co-location"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 1987 Montreal Summit brought together leaders from 24 nations to sign the ozone treaty.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Every morning at 9 a.m., nurses gather in Ward B of St. Mary's Hospital for shift handover.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    },
    {
      "text": "The first Node.js developer conference, JSConf US 2009, drew 400 programmers to Washington, D.C.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "event.occurrence",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "social.relational",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "club.social",
    "conference.social",
    "council.governance"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "meet",
    "meeting",
    "meetings",
    "meets",
    "met"
  ],
  "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": "factual",
      "note": "Added interaction.process and interacting.social to components to align record with definition; interaction was previously missing despite being central to the definition."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-meeting.social"
}