{
  "id": "number.quantity",
  "term": "number",
  "sense": "quantity",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 6,
  "arena": "number",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a mark of many distinct others together in a place",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "difference.relation",
      "distinct.attribute",
      "others.distinct-entities",
      "space.extent",
      "marks.visual"
    ],
    "interaction": "Differences between distinct others are recognized in space, and their collective presence is visually marked to indicate magnitude.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "collective magnitude",
      "spatial grouping",
      "visual count marker"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2020 U.S. Census counted 331,449,281 residents across 50 states.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "A DNA sequencer reads 3 billion base pairs to map a human genome.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Large Hadron Collider detects up to 40 million particle collisions per second.",
      "domain": "physics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "add.operation",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "addition.mathematical",
    "amount.quantity",
    "average.statistical",
    "even.numerical",
    "figure.numeric",
    "june.month",
    "quantity.numerical",
    "rating.evaluation",
    "ratio.proportion",
    "several.quantity",
    "six.cardinal",
    "statistics.data",
    "the-compression-claim.assertion",
    "thirty.numeral",
    "total.quantity"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "number",
    "numbered",
    "numbering",
    "numbers"
  ],
  "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": "Definition was correct but components were incomplete. Added missing constitutive concepts from L2–L5. Definition kept intact as per preference (1). Removed non-constitutive L16 capacity.size, which b"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-number.quantity"
}