{
  "id": "next.temporal",
  "term": "next",
  "sense": "temporal",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 10,
  "arena": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "domain": "temporal",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "the thing that follows now in time",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "follows.sequential",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "When follow is within time, it makes an after thing after now.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "future adjacency",
      "temporal sequencing"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station orbited Earth every 90 minutes, launching debris in the path of future missions after the 2009 collision with Iridium 33.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Apple released iOS 15 the day after iOS 14's final security patch, ending support for iPhone 6 models.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by 0.75% in June 2022, following the consumer price index report showing 8.6% inflation.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "previous.temporal",
      "note": "contrasts-with",
      "type": "contrasts-with"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "december.date",
    "edition.publication",
    "lag.temporal",
    "october.month",
    "september.calendar",
    "sunday.day"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "next",
    "nexted",
    "nexting",
    "nexts"
  ],
  "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-next.temporal"
}