{
  "id": "occupied.spatial",
  "term": "occupied",
  "sense": "spatial",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 8,
  "arena": "occupied",
  "domain": "common",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "A space where matter is in and so not a hole.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "space.extent",
      "matter.substance"
    ],
    "interaction": "Matter comes into a place so the place is no longer a hole.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "matter filling the space",
      "absence of empty region"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station occupies volume in low Earth orbit, displacing vacuum with pressurized modules and equipment.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Mount Everest occupies a region of the Himalayas, composed of rock and ice that resists atmospheric displacement.",
      "domain": "geography"
    },
    {
      "text": "A neutron star occupies a sphere roughly 20 kilometers wide, packing more mass than the Sun into degenerate matter.",
      "domain": "astrophysics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "full.state",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "alone.state",
      "note": "contrasts-with",
      "type": "contrasts-with"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "actuality.state",
    "authenticity.state",
    "full.state",
    "harmony.relational",
    "national.political",
    "unoccupied.spatial"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "occupied",
    "occupies",
    "occupy",
    "occupying"
  ],
  "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-occupied.spatial"
}