{
  "id": "obsolete.inactive",
  "term": "obsolete",
  "sense": "inactive",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 15,
  "arena": "emergent systems",
  "domain": "window ontology",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "a system still inside its window, in an environment where nothing sits inside its input window",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "window.range",
      "parameter.condition",
      "drift.aimless",
      "maintenance.upkeep",
      "environment.surroundings",
      "inside.spatial",
      "nothing.absence",
      "still.quiet",
      "system.organized"
    ],
    "interaction": "The absence of input through an open window in the environment causes a persistent system to lose function even though its parameters remain within viable limits.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "loss of function without parameter failure",
      "persistent inactivity from environmental absence",
      "structural integrity without operational continuity"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Mir space station drifted in low Earth orbit from 1991 until 2001, receiving no commands after Soviet ground control collapsed.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "After the 2008 financial crisis, abandoned subdivisions like Osborne, California, remained zoned for development but saw no new construction.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Arecibo Observatory's radar transmitter sat inactive from 2017 until its 2020 collapse, though the dish remained structurally intact.",
      "domain": "physics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "obsolete"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.8,
    "sources": [
      "Sample/hundred-words-six-terms.md"
    ],
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added 'windows.opening' as it is constitutive in the definition's reference to 'input window'; all other components are retained as they are functionally relevant to the system's state and environment"
    },
    "restored": {
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "from": "Sample/hundred-words-six-terms.md",
      "replaced": "a system that remains within its operational bounds but ceases to function due to lack of external input"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-obsolete.inactive"
}