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  "id": "overall.general",
  "term": "overall",
  "sense": "general",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 8,
  "arena": "overall",
  "domain": "general",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "all parts together as a whole",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "whole.complete",
      "total.quantity"
    ],
    "interaction": "the whole and the total are taken together, producing a sense of everything taken as one",
    "novel_properties": [
      "global perspective",
      "summary view"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2003 Northeast Blackout affected 50 million people when a single overloaded transmission line in Ohio failed, cascading into a regional grid collapse.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The human genome contains 3.2 billion base pairs, but only about 1.5% codes for proteins, with regulatory functions emerging from the whole sequence.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2008, Lehman Brothers' bankruptcy revealed that the overall risk in the mortgage-backed securities market exceeded the sum of its rated parts.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "common.general",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "total.quantity",
      "note": "abstracts",
      "type": "abstracts"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "overall"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-overall.general"
}