{
  "id": "others.distinct-entities",
  "term": "others",
  "sense": "distinct-entities",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 2,
  "arena": "social",
  "domain": "existence",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "Things that are in space and time but not the same thing as one, or not the same pattern as one.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "space.extent",
      "time.dimension",
      "pattern.regularity",
      "difference.relation"
    ],
    "interaction": "Things occupy different places in space and time, and their patterns differ, so they are not one thing.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "distinct entities",
      "non-self existence"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station orbits Earth every 90 minutes, hosting astronauts from different nations.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2020 US presidential election counted votes across 50 states, each managing its own ballot systems.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Glial cells in the human brain outnumber neurons by about 1.5 to 1, supporting neural function.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "difference.relation",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "others differ from a reference self"
    },
    {
      "id": "pattern.regularity",
      "type": "abstracts",
      "note": "others have patterns that can be recognized and distinguished"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "advertise.commercial",
    "advertising.commercial",
    "alone.state",
    "anyone.person",
    "base.foundation",
    "best.quality",
    "blog.online",
    "care.emotional",
    "charged.electrical",
    "choose.decision",
    "common.general",
    "competition.social",
    "contact.physical",
    "contract.legal",
    "control.ability",
    "date.social",
    "defines.verb",
    "distinct.attribute",
    "else.other",
    "entities.object",
    "everything.universal",
    "foreign.geographic",
    "friendly.social",
    "general.broad",
    "give.transfer",
    "ground.level",
    "groups.collection",
    "guide.person",
    "harmony.relational",
    "identifier.label",
    "individual.entity",
    "items.object",
    "lead.guide",
    "like.similarity",
    "little.size",
    "march.movement",
    "number.quantity",
    "particular.specific",
    "people.social",
    "personal.self",
    "polite.social",
    "port.harbor",
    "pride.state",
    "privacy.social",
    "private.social",
    "published.information",
    "rights.moral",
    "said.speech",
    "says.speech",
    "score.points",
    "search.action",
    "security.safety",
    "self.personal",
    "server.digital",
    "sets.grouped",
    "share.distribution",
    "someone.person",
    "special.quality",
    "specific.detail",
    "status.social",
    "style.fashion",
    "talk.spoken",
    "thank.social",
    "visit.social",
    "win.victory"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "others"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-others.distinct-entities"
}