{
  "id": "outcome.result",
  "term": "outcome",
  "sense": "result",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 10,
  "arena": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "the state that follows after a change",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "change.process",
      "state.condition",
      "follows.sequential",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "a change alters a thing over time, and through sequential progression, a new state emerges as the outcome",
    "novel_properties": [
      "temporal succession",
      "emergent stability",
      "post-transitional state"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2008 financial crisis followed the collapse of Lehman Brothers and a cascade of mortgage defaults.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "After the 1986 Chernobyl reactor explosion, a radioactive exclusion zone formed across northern Ukraine.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Apple's release of the iPhone in 2007 reshaped global mobile phone usage patterns within five years.",
      "domain": "technology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "results.outcome",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "effective.useful",
    "game.playful",
    "performance.quality",
    "poker.game",
    "try.effort"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "outcome",
    "outcomes"
  ],
  "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 temporal and sequential components necessary for the outcome to be defined; original record omitted foundational aspects of sequence and time, which are essential for the definition give"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-outcome.result"
}