{
  "id": "occurs.event",
  "term": "occurs",
  "sense": "event",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 2,
  "arena": "occur.event",
  "domain": "semantics",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a change that is at some place during time",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "change.process",
      "space.extent",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "change is at some place and happens during time",
    "novel_properties": [
      "specific occurrence",
      "situated change"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake ruptured 400 km of the Japan Trench over 150 seconds.",
      "domain": "geophysics"
    },
    {
      "text": "At CERN in 2012, a Higgs boson emerged in ATLAS detector data at 125 GeV.",
      "domain": "particle physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank unfolded over 48 hours in March 2023 as depositors withdrew $42 billion.",
      "domain": "finance"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "happen.event-occurrence",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "buffer.region",
    "christmas.holiday",
    "climate.weather",
    "cycle.loop",
    "event.occurrence",
    "experience.cognitive",
    "feedback.communication",
    "frozen.state",
    "insurance.financial",
    "music.auditory",
    "process.general",
    "response.behavioral",
    "speed.motion",
    "strain.measurable-degradation",
    "summer.season",
    "test.assessment",
    "verb.grammatical"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "occur",
    "occurred",
    "occurring",
    "occurs"
  ],
  "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-occurs.event"
}