{
  "id": "off.state",
  "term": "off",
  "sense": "state",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 2,
  "arena": "off",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "when a thing is not here, it is there",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "space.extent",
      "difference.relation"
    ],
    "interaction": "a thing’s place differs from here, so it is there",
    "novel_properties": [
      "separation from location",
      "absence of presence"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2003 Northeast blackout left 50 million people without power across three U.S. states and Ontario.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006, no longer counted among the solar system's major planets.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "During the 1994 Rwandan genocide, Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines ceased broadcasting for three weeks.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "state.condition",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "away.spatial",
    "holiday.leisure",
    "lost.state",
    "night.temporal",
    "non.negation",
    "nothing.absence",
    "port.harbor",
    "sleep.biological",
    "want.desire"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "off"
  ],
  "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-off.state"
}