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  "id": "million.numerical",
  "term": "million",
  "sense": "numerical",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 8,
  "arena": "million",
  "domain": "numerical",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a number that is a large quantity",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "large.size",
      "quantity.numerical"
    ],
    "interaction": "When a numerical quantity is large, it is a very high number",
    "novel_properties": [
      "order of magnitude",
      "standard naming"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The city of Los Angeles processes over a million tons of waste annually at the Puente Hills landfill.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2020, the Twitter account @BarstoolSports reached one million followers during the U.S. presidential election cycle.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 1969 Woodstock Festival drew an estimated 400,000 people, approaching a million with support crews and stragglers.",
      "domain": "events"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "million",
    "millions"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-million.numerical"
}