{
  "id": "minutes.temporal",
  "term": "minutes",
  "sense": "temporal",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 6,
  "arena": "minutes.temporal",
  "domain": "temporal",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a part of time that is a regular portion longer than a second",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "time.dimension",
      "second.temporal",
      "portion.share",
      "long.size",
      "part.relation",
      "regular.frequency"
    ],
    "interaction": "time has parts that recur in a fixed pattern, each lasting longer than a second",
    "novel_properties": [
      "repeating duration longer than a second",
      "measured subdivision of time",
      "consistent temporal interval"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station orbits Earth every 92 minutes, maintaining its trajectory through periodic reboosts.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 1967, the atomic clock at the US Naval Observatory began defining the second, enabling precise measurement of minutes in global timekeeping.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 911 emergency system dispatches fire crews within an average of 6 minutes in New York City.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "time.dimension",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "minute",
    "minutes"
  ],
  "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": "components",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive concepts: long.size, part.relation, regular.frequency — all required to support the given definition."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-minutes.temporal"
}