{
  "id": "on-the-same-wavelength.resonance",
  "term": "on the same wavelength",
  "sense": "resonance",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 11,
  "arena": "collaboration",
  "domain": "social",
  "style": "folk",
  "definition": "When two things change each other in a way that makes their interaction exceed what each could do alone, because their patterns are close enough to reinforce without being the same.",
  "folk_gloss": "People understand each other easily and communicate well.",
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "interaction.process",
      "pattern.regularity",
      "difference.relation",
      "whole.complete",
      "greater-than-the-sum.excess"
    ],
    "interaction": "interaction.process",
    "novel_properties": [
      "greater-than-the-sum.excess"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Two tuning forks vibrate at 440 Hz and amplify each other's sound when one is struck nearby.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "Fireflies in Southeast Asia flash in unison across trees, synchronizing their pulses within milliseconds.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2008 Iceland financial crisis saw public protests rapidly align with media and political discourse, forcing systemic change.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "on the same wavelength"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "phrases:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.7,
    "sources": [
      "folk phrase — the whole exceeding its parts"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-on-the-same-wavelength.resonance"
}