{
  "id": "near.spatial",
  "term": "near",
  "sense": "spatial",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 2,
  "arena": "near",
  "domain": "spatial",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "when the space between two things is less",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "space.extent",
      "difference.relation"
    ],
    "interaction": "a small space between things reduces their difference, creating a close relation",
    "novel_properties": [
      "small spatial gap",
      "minimal separation",
      "perceived proximity"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station passed within 400 kilometers of the Hubble Space Telescope during a 2009 servicing mission.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2016, Proxima Centauri was measured to be 4.24 light-years from the Solar System, the nearest known star to the Sun.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "A foraging bee returns to its hive within a 5-kilometer radius after locating a patch of blooming lavender.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "close.spatial",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "far.distance",
      "note": "contrasts-with",
      "type": "contrasts-with"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "almost.approximation",
    "brink.edge",
    "comfortable.central",
    "danger.condition",
    "extreme.position",
    "margin.spatial",
    "marginal.spatial",
    "moderation.central",
    "strain.measurable-degradation"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "near",
    "neared",
    "nearer",
    "nearest",
    "nearing",
    "nears"
  ],
  "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-near.spatial"
}