{
  "id": "parasitism.systemic",
  "term": "parasitism",
  "sense": "systemic",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 18,
  "arena": "general",
  "domain": "emergent",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "one system holding its window open by narrowing another's",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "window.range",
      "parameter.condition",
      "narrow.spatial",
      "maintenance.upkeep",
      "boundary.limit",
      "hold.physical",
      "open.spatial",
      "system.organized"
    ],
    "interaction": "The components work together so that one organized system sustains its own viable parameter range by actively constraining the spatial or functional range available to another system.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "asymmetric persistence",
      "relational dependency",
      "coerced limitation"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In the 2003 Northeast Blackout, Ohio's FirstEnergy failed to trim trees, causing a cascade that left 55 million without power for hours.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Cancer cells in a human body consume 70% of glucose, starving healthy tissues and forcing metabolic reprogramming.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "Amazon's marketplace prioritizes Fulfilled-by-Amazon listings, reducing visibility for third-party sellers who use independent logistics.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "parasitism"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "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": "Removed 'windows.opening' as it refers to architectural features irrelevant to the conceptual metaphor; retained only constitutive concepts directly engaged by the definition."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-parasitism.systemic"
}