{
  "id": "nature.ordinary",
  "term": "nature",
  "sense": "ordinary",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 8,
  "arena": "nature",
  "domain": "Emergence",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "the total of matter and pattern in space through time",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "matter.substance",
      "pattern.regularity",
      "space.extent",
      "time.dimension",
      "total.quantity"
    ],
    "interaction": "matter and pattern together in space and through time constitute the entirety of the physical world",
    "novel_properties": [
      "wholeness",
      "physical reality",
      "spatiotemporal unity"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Amazon Rainforest cycles 20 billion tons of water daily through transpiration and rainfall, sustaining its own climate patterns.",
      "domain": "ecology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The LHC at CERN collides protons at 99.999999% of light speed, revealing fundamental particles within spacetime.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Great Barrier Reef, built by corals over 20 million years, spans 2,300 kilometers across the Pacific.",
      "domain": "geology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "environment.surroundings",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "nature",
    "natures"
  ],
  "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 'total.quantity' to components since the definition's use of 'total' implies a quantitative sum of parts. The interaction sentence remains unchanged as it aligns with the definition. No definiti"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-nature.ordinary"
}