{
  "id": "narrow.spatial",
  "term": "narrow",
  "sense": "spatial",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 5,
  "arena": "E1",
  "domain": "property",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "Having a small range between boundaries.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "small.size",
      "range.spatial",
      "boundary.limit"
    ],
    "interaction": "Two boundaries close together leave little room between them.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "little room to vary"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Strait of Gibraltar is 14 km wide at its narrowest point, constraining Atlantic-Mediterranean ship traffic.",
      "domain": "geography"
    },
    {
      "text": "A 2-millimeter clearance in the LHC's superconducting magnets limits allowable beam divergence.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Tokyo's Chuo Line trains operate on tracks spaced only 3.1 meters apart, among the narrowest for double-track tunnels.",
      "domain": "transportation"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "wide.spatial",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "the two widths of a range"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "bottleneck.constraint",
    "brink.edge",
    "certainty.epistemic",
    "constraint.limiting",
    "deferred-maintenance.upkeep",
    "delay.timing",
    "delicate.window",
    "essence.core",
    "factor-of-safety.margin",
    "form.shape",
    "fragile.conditional",
    "frozen.state",
    "good-enough.threshold",
    "grip.constraint",
    "ground.level",
    "inertia.resistance",
    "insight.cognitive",
    "keystone.system",
    "marginal.spatial",
    "missing-the-forest-for-the-trees.abstraction",
    "necessity.condition",
    "no-free-openings.no-openings",
    "order.arrangement",
    "parasitism.systemic",
    "precarious.unstable",
    "pure.state",
    "relief.emergent",
    "rhythm.temporal",
    "rupture.structural",
    "safety.security",
    "scale.parameter",
    "scar.residual",
    "slack.margin",
    "strain.measurable-degradation",
    "symmetry-versus-regularity-licence.licence",
    "table-stakes.threshold",
    "thaw.recovery",
    "the-compression-claim.assertion",
    "trimming-the-fat.margin",
    "truth.epistemic",
    "verge.edge"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "narrow",
    "narrowed",
    "narrower",
    "narrowing",
    "narrows"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "hand",
    "date": "2026-07-31",
    "confidence": 1.0
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-narrow.spatial"
}