{
  "id": "night.temporal",
  "term": "night",
  "sense": "temporal",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 3,
  "arena": "general",
  "domain": "emergence",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "the time when it is off",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "time.dimension",
      "off.state"
    ],
    "interaction": "When time is and it is off, a condition happens",
    "novel_properties": [
      "darkness",
      "rest period",
      "lower temperature"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Fermilab Tevatron particle accelerator shut down permanently at 2:00 p.m. CDT on September 30, 2011, ending its operational state.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2012 Amazon Web Services outage occurred when a data center entered nighttime maintenance mode in northern Virginia.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "The city of Cape Town turned off streetlights in Zone 4B nightly from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. during the 2018 water crisis to save energy.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "state.condition",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "night is a state condition"
    },
    {
      "id": "days.temporal",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "night contrasts with day"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "night",
    "nights"
  ],
  "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-night.temporal"
}