{
  "id": "noun.language",
  "term": "noun",
  "sense": "language",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 10,
  "arena": "description",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a set of specific details that like a thing's state and form information",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "sets.grouped",
      "details.information",
      "state.condition",
      "form.shape",
      "information.knowledge",
      "like.similarity",
      "specific.detail"
    ],
    "interaction": "These components group details that resemble a thing's state and form through shared patterns, producing a unified description.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "representational coherence",
      "pattern-based reference",
      "integrated identity criterion"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station maintains its orbit at approximately 400 km altitude through periodic reboosts using thrusters.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The U.S. Constitution has been amended 27 times since 1789 to adapt legal interpretation while preserving foundational structure.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "A neuron in the human brain sustains resting membrane potential at about -70 mV using ion pumps.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "information.knowledge",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "delay.timing"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "describe",
    "described",
    "describes",
    "describing",
    "description",
    "descriptions"
  ],
  "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": "factual",
      "note": "Definition was factually incorrect — it referred to concepts not in the record. Now components are complete and definition matches emergence."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-noun.language"
}