{
  "id": "port.harbor",
  "term": "port",
  "sense": "harbor",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 15,
  "arena": "port",
  "domain": "emergence",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a place where land touches water for others to be put on or taken off the water",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "boundary.limit",
      "water.liquid",
      "space.extent",
      "land.geography",
      "off.state",
      "others.distinct-entities",
      "put.placement",
      "take.acquisition",
      "touch.together"
    ],
    "interaction": "the boundary of land touches the water in a space creating a place where others can be put on or taken off the water",
    "novel_properties": [
      "access point between land and water",
      "site of transfer for mobile entities",
      "interface of terrestrial and aquatic domains"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Port of Singapore handled 37.5 million TEUs in 2023, the world's busiest transshipment hub.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2011, the Port of New Orleans was closed after Hurricane Katrina flooded docking infrastructure.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Fishermen at Ghana's Sekondi Fishing Harbour land daily catches using wooden canoes and outboard motors.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "space.extent",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "port",
    "ported",
    "porting",
    "ports"
  ],
  "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": "factual",
      "note": "definition was factually incomplete—omitted core concepts like land, transfer actions, and distinct entities; updated components to reflect actual constitution"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-port.harbor"
}