{
  "id": "miles.measurement",
  "term": "miles",
  "sense": "measurement",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 16,
  "arena": "miles",
  "domain": "measurement",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a length that is about one thousand six hundred meters",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "length.spatial",
      "size.measurement",
      "big.size",
      "hundred.quantity",
      "meters.measurement",
      "six.cardinal",
      "thousand.numerical"
    ],
    "interaction": "the length together with a measurement creates a specific distance amount",
    "novel_properties": [
      "standardized long distance unit",
      "approximate metric equivalence",
      "composite cardinal scaling"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2023 New York City Marathon measured exactly 26.2 miles from Staten Island to Central Park.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    },
    {
      "text": "The SR-71 Blackbird flew at speeds exceeding 2,000 miles per hour during Cold War reconnaissance missions.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Moon is about 238,900 miles from Earth, as tracked by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "size.measurement",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "length.spatial",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "mile",
    "miles"
  ],
  "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": "Definition was factually incorrect (miles are approximately 1609 meters, not exactly 1600). Adjusted definition and added missing conceptual components to support precise emergence."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-miles.measurement"
}