{
  "id": "paper.material",
  "term": "paper",
  "sense": "material",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 16,
  "arena": "object",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a flat piece of material to make text or print",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "matter.substance",
      "structure.arrangement",
      "flat.commonsurfacegeometry",
      "make.verb",
      "material.physical",
      "piece.portion",
      "print.material",
      "text.written"
    ],
    "interaction": "substance and arrangement interact through make.verb to form a persistent flat piece of material",
    "novel_properties": [
      "flatness with persistence",
      "capacity for marked information",
      "tactile surface uniformity"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Gutenberg Bible, printed in 1455 on linen paper, survives in 49 copies from the first major book printed with movable metal type.",
      "domain": "history"
    },
    {
      "text": "A single sheet of standard A4 paper, 0.1 mm thick, supports text from an inkjet printer in office environments.",
      "domain": "everydaylife"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Library of Congress preserves the 1501 Aldine edition of Aristotle on handmade rag paper, fragile after 500 years.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "material.physical",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "paper is a kind of physical material"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "document.record",
    "letter.written",
    "magazine.publication",
    "printer.tool"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "paper",
    "papered",
    "papering",
    "papers"
  ],
  "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": "components",
      "note": "Definition preserved; missing constitutive concepts added to components to align with definition's presuppositions."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-paper.material"
}