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  "id": "organized.structure",
  "term": "organized",
  "sense": "structure",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 3,
  "arena": "organized",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a state where parts are in a regular pattern that persists through time",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "structure.arrangement",
      "regular.frequency",
      "persist.continue",
      "part.relation",
      "pattern.regularity",
      "state.condition",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "the parts are in a regular pattern that persists through time",
    "novel_properties": [
      "persistent regularity",
      "structured endurance",
      "temporal coherence"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station maintains its orbital configuration through periodic reboosts and alignment adjustments.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Beehives sustain hexagonal wax comb patterns across seasons despite individual bee turnover.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Linux kernel's version control history shows consistent branching and merging structures since 1991.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "order.arrangement",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "system.organized",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "administration.administrative",
    "advanced.skill",
    "calendar.tool",
    "county.administrative",
    "department.organizational",
    "engineering.technical",
    "game.playful",
    "industry.economic",
    "military.force",
    "political.governance",
    "professional.occupation",
    "science.knowledge",
    "sports.activity",
    "war.conflict"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "organised",
    "organises",
    "organising",
    "organized",
    "organizes",
    "organizing"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "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": "factual",
      "note": "added missing foundational concepts that the definition relies upon but were absent in the declared components; no change to definition wording was needed beyond correcting factual incompleteness in c"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-organized.structure"
}