{
  "id": "particular.specific",
  "term": "particular",
  "sense": "specific",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 8,
  "arena": "definition",
  "domain": "english",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a thing that is a specific detail and that differs from others",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "specific.detail",
      "difference.relation",
      "details.information",
      "others.distinct-entities"
    ],
    "interaction": "specific detail and difference together make a thing that differs from others",
    "novel_properties": [
      "distinct individual instance",
      "non-overlapping identity",
      "specificity with contrast"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2020 U.S. Census counted 331,449,281 people, each recorded as a distinct resident at a specific address.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "In the LHC, each proton collision produces unique particle tracks, no two identical in energy or trajectory.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Linux kernel 5.10 release log lists 23,500 individual code changes, each tied to a specific developer and timestamp.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "specific.detail",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "general.broad",
      "note": "contrasts-with",
      "type": "contrasts-with"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "due.expected",
    "equipment.tool"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "particular",
    "particulars"
  ],
  "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": "Added missing constitutive concepts 'details.in游戏副本text' and 'others.distinct-entities' to align components with the definition."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-particular.specific"
}