{
  "id": "month.temporal",
  "term": "month",
  "sense": "temporal",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 13,
  "arena": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "domain": "temporal",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a time of about thirty days that repeats each year",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "days.temporal",
      "regular.frequency",
      "repeats.action",
      "thirty.numeral",
      "time.dimension",
      "year.time"
    ],
    "interaction": "many days group together in a regular pattern to form a longer time span that recurs each year",
    "novel_properties": [
      "recurrent duration",
      "intermediate timescale",
      "structured periodicity"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Gregorian calendar schedules February as a 28-day month, except in leap years when it has 29.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The billing cycle for electricity in Tokyo Electric Power Company repeats every 30 or 31 days without exception.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "NASA mission logs for Voyager 2 record data in monthly summaries since its 1977 launch.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "time.dimension",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "april.month",
    "calendar.tool",
    "christmas.holiday",
    "december.date",
    "february.calendar",
    "july.temporal",
    "june.month",
    "november.date",
    "october.month",
    "september.calendar"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "month",
    "months"
  ],
  "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 that the definition relies on but were omitted from components: repeats.action, thirty.numeral, time.dimension, year.time. Definition remained correct and unchanged"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-month.temporal"
}