{
  "id": "online.digital",
  "term": "online",
  "sense": "digital",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 8,
  "arena": "emergencelexicon",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "being connected to a structure that transports information",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "web.structure",
      "information.knowledge",
      "carrying.transporting",
      "connects.verb"
    ],
    "interaction": "A web.structure transports information, and when something connects to it, the connection enables ongoing flow.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "continuous access",
      "potential for interaction",
      "distributed presence"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2023 outage of Cloudflare's global DNS network disrupted access to sites like Hinge and Gov.uk for four hours.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "During the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, Japan's SHIS earthquake early warning system broadcast alerts seconds before shaking reached Tokyo.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2020, the U.S. Postal Service's mail processing delays affected delivery of election ballots in swing states.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "use.application",
      "note": "",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "chat.digital",
    "email.digital",
    "website.digital"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "online"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "definition",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive concepts; tightened definition to align with components without node IDs."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-online.digital"
}