{
  "id": "outside.spatial",
  "term": "outside",
  "sense": "spatial",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 6,
  "arena": "outside",
  "domain": "spatial",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "the space that is not inside a thing's boundary",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "boundary.limit",
      "inside.spatial",
      "space.extent"
    ],
    "interaction": "If a boundary defines where a thing ends and the space that is not the thing begins, the region beyond that limit, within space, is outside.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "external region",
      "spatial separation from interior",
      "position relative to containment"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station orbits Earth, where the vacuum of space begins just beyond its pressurized hull.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2023, Hurricane Ian made landfall in Florida, with storm winds extending far outside the eye wall.",
      "domain": "meteorology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Great Wall of China stretches 2,145 km across northern China, separating the Han territories from lands outside.",
      "domain": "history"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "exterior.spatial",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "inside.spatial",
      "note": "contrasts-with",
      "type": "contrasts-with"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "abandonment.withdrawal",
    "ambush.attack",
    "collapse.failure",
    "context.surrounding-conditions",
    "contradiction.logical",
    "exhaustion.capacity",
    "integrity.state",
    "repair.restore",
    "resilience.recovery-rate",
    "status.social",
    "surprise.reaction",
    "waste.output",
    "window.range"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "outside",
    "outsides"
  ],
  "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 but essential 'space.extent' component, since 'outside' fundamentally presupposes an extended space. Without space, there is no 'where' for 'outside' to mean anything."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-outside.spatial"
}