{
  "id": "mid.spatial",
  "term": "mid",
  "sense": "spatial",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 4,
  "arena": "middle",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "the part of a space that is equally distant from the boundaries",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "center.location",
      "boundary.limit",
      "part.relation",
      "space.extent",
      "just.exact"
    ],
    "interaction": "the center of a space together with its boundaries determines the region that lies equally between them",
    "novel_properties": [
      "equidistant region",
      "interior continuity",
      "balanced position"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station orbits Earth at an altitude where gravitational pull from both bodies balances exactly at its center of mass.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Forbidden City in Beijing was constructed with its main halls aligned precisely at the midpoint between the northern and southern walls.",
      "domain": "architecture"
    },
    {
      "text": "The GPS satellite network calculates position fixes by measuring signal travel time to the midpoint between orbital extremes.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "center.location",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "boundary.limit",
      "note": "contrasts-with",
      "type": "contrasts-with"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "middle",
    "middles"
  ],
  "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": "definition",
      "note": "Updated definition to remove self-referential phrasing and better align with declared components. Added missing constitutive concepts: part.relation, space.extent, just.exact. Definition now accuratel"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-mid.spatial"
}