{
  "id": "momentum.retained",
  "term": "momentum",
  "sense": "retained",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 16,
  "arena": "natural",
  "domain": "physics",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "drift that continues after the force producing it stops",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "drift.aimless",
      "parameter.condition",
      "window.range",
      "maintenance.upkeep",
      "boundary.limit",
      "continue.action",
      "force.push",
      "stop.action",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "drift persists within a parameter's window after the force ends because the cessation of force interacts with temporal continuity and boundary conditions to sustain motion.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "persistence after force removal",
      "temporal inertia within bounded conditions",
      "continued change without ongoing cause"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "A bicycle continues forward for 40 meters after the rider stops pedaling on a flat road.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station orbits Earth every 90 minutes despite no continuous thrust.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Bitcoin prices rose 30% in two weeks after the initial regulatory scare faded, fueled by trader sentiment.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "snowball-effect.stacked-dependency"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "momentum"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.8,
    "sources": [
      "Sample/hundred-words-six-terms.md"
    ],
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "factual",
      "note": "Definition was factually correct but emergence record originally omitted constitutive concepts such as time.dimension, continue.action, force.push, and stop.action, without which the phenomenon cannot"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-momentum.retained"
}