{
  "id": "overload.capacity",
  "term": "overload",
  "sense": "capacity",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 11,
  "arena": "general",
  "domain": "window",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "a parameter whose value is beyond the wall of its window",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "parameter.condition",
      "wall.range-end",
      "value.worth",
      "window.range"
    ],
    "interaction": "The parameter's condition attains a value that exceeds the limiting wall, where the value is understood in terms of worth and the window as an opening structure.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "exceedance of viable range",
      "value-laden boundary crossing",
      "structural breach of containment"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2003 Northeast Blackout began when overloaded transmission lines sagged into trees, tripping cascading failures across 20,000 square miles.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "During the 2020 pandemic surge, ICU beds in Lombardy exceeded capacity, forcing clinicians to ration ventilators.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2010, Knight Capital’s trading algorithm executed $440 million in unintended trades due to a code overload in milliseconds.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "overload",
    "overloading",
    "overloads"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.8,
    "sources": [
      "Sample/hundred-words-six-terms.md"
    ],
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Fixed components to align with the definition: added 'value.worth' and 'windows.opening' as genuinely constitutive per definition's semantics; retained 'parameter.condition' and 'wall.range-end' where"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-overload.capacity"
}