{
  "id": "plus.addition",
  "term": "plus",
  "sense": "addition",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 5,
  "arena": "",
  "domain": "",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "when a thing is added to another thing",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "add.operation",
      "difference.relation"
    ],
    "interaction": "add operation adds one thing to another",
    "novel_properties": [
      "new total",
      "greater amount"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station gained 2,771 kg when the Columbus module docked in 2008.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "On April 14, 1912, 1,517 lives were added to the death toll when the Titanic sank.",
      "domain": "history"
    },
    {
      "text": "Python’s list.append() method adds one element to a list’s length, like adding 42 to [1, 2].",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "add.operation",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": ""
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "plus",
    "pluses"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-plus.addition"
}