{
  "id": "movies.entertainment",
  "term": "movies",
  "sense": "entertainment",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 13,
  "arena": "movies",
  "domain": "emergence",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a product that combines moving images and sound to create a visual experience over time",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "video.digital",
      "music.auditory",
      "make.verb",
      "products.goods",
      "show.visual",
      "time.dimension",
      "visual.perceptual",
      "create.production",
      "experience.cognitive",
      "image.visual",
      "motion.movement",
      "sound.auditory"
    ],
    "interaction": "the moving images and sound interact to form a unified perceptible sequence that unfolds over time",
    "novel_properties": [
      "dynamic visual narrative",
      "temporal audiovisual immersion",
      "integrated sensory storytelling"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The premiere of 'Avatar' in 2009 combined digital video, sound design, and visual effects to create a feature-length cinematic experience.",
      "domain": "entertainment"
    },
    {
      "text": "Disney's 'Steamboat Willie' (1928) synchronized animated images with sound, marking an early milestone in film as a perceptual and technical product.",
      "domain": "history"
    },
    {
      "text": "IMAX theaters use high-resolution digital projection and spatial audio to amplify the cognitive and sensory immersion of movies.",
      "domain": "technology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "movie",
    "movies"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "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": "The original components list omitted constitutive concepts such as create.production, experience.cognitive, image.visual, motion.movement, and sound.auditory, which are essential to the definition. Th"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-movies.entertainment"
}