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  "id": "part.relation",
  "term": "part",
  "sense": "relation",
  "pos": "relation",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 1,
  "arena": "E1",
  "domain": "logic",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "Something that is in a thing but is not all of that thing.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "space.extent",
      "pattern.regularity"
    ],
    "interaction": "A pattern contains a smaller region of space that is itself patterned.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "containment",
      "composition"
    ]
  },
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    {
      "text": "The International Space Station's solar array wing failed in 2007 due to a guide wire snag, halting power generation for Node 2.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "A human red blood cell lacks a nucleus, yet carries oxygen within the circulatory system.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland dispersed ash particles that grounded European air traffic for six days.",
      "domain": "geophysics"
    }
  ],
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  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "hand",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 1.0
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-part.relation"
}