{
  "id": "name.identifier",
  "term": "name",
  "sense": "identifier",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "domain": "common language",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "information that makes a thing different from others",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "information.knowledge",
      "difference.relation"
    ],
    "interaction": "the information is attached to a thing so that it becomes different from other things",
    "novel_properties": [
      "reference",
      "identity marker",
      "shared symbol"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station maintains its orbit with periodic reboosts from attached thrusters.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Amazon River carries more than 20% of global river discharge into the Atlantic Ocean daily.",
      "domain": "geography"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Domain Name System translates 'google.com' to an IP address for routing requests.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "address.location",
    "april.month",
    "brand.marketing",
    "comfort-zone.named",
    "directory.information",
    "identifier.label",
    "index.reference",
    "login.digital",
    "map.spatial",
    "registration.administrative",
    "title.label",
    "verb.grammatical"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "name",
    "named",
    "names",
    "naming"
  ],
  "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-name.identifier"
}