{
  "id": "portion.share",
  "term": "portion",
  "sense": "share",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 3,
  "arena": "portion",
  "domain": "emergence",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a part of a thing that has its own boundary",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "part.relation",
      "boundary.limit"
    ],
    "interaction": "the part is enclosed by a boundary, forming a distinct piece",
    "novel_properties": [
      "own identity",
      "specific share"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2020 California wildfire season consumed 4.3 million acres, over 4% of the state's total land area.",
      "domain": "environment"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Amazon Rainforest covers 5.5 million square kilometers, about 34% of South America's landmass.",
      "domain": "geography"
    },
    {
      "text": "The U.S. federal budget allocated $778 billion to defense spending in 2022, roughly 15% of total expenditures.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "piece.portion",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "average.statistical",
    "bay.geographic",
    "hill.geographic",
    "minutes.temporal",
    "print.material",
    "rock.material",
    "second.temporal",
    "share.distribution",
    "thread.material",
    "week.temporal"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "portion",
    "portioned",
    "portioning",
    "portions"
  ],
  "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-portion.share"
}