{
  "id": "power.over",
  "term": "power",
  "sense": "over",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 14,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "The reach of one thing over the walls of another thing's window.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "reach.action",
      "set.fix",
      "wall.range-end",
      "window.range",
      "others.distinct-entities"
    ],
    "interaction": "When a thing's reach includes walls that bound another thing's window, setting them changes where the other can be. The relation is power while the other cannot set the first one's walls back; read from the bounded side, the same relation is dependence.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "an asymmetry between two windows",
      "a wall whose bearer is outside the window it bounds",
      "direction-free: widening another's window on one's own terms is still power"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "dependence.condition",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "the same relation read from the other side: power sets the walls, dependence has them set"
    },
    {
      "id": "constraint.limiting",
      "type": "enables",
      "note": "a constraint is a wall installed on purpose; power is the reach to install it in another's window"
    },
    {
      "id": "power.energy",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "reach over another's walls, not the physical rate of energy; 'powered/powering' keep the physics sense"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "asian-century.claimed-future",
    "checkmate.other-set",
    "chilling-effect.induced-under",
    "deep-state.hidden",
    "deterrence.modeled-wall",
    "double-bind.contradictory",
    "economic-nationalism.firms",
    "elite.few",
    "establishment.settled",
    "federal.government",
    "foreign-interference.outside",
    "gaslighting.hidden-edit",
    "helicopter-parenting.never-withdrawn",
    "hobsons-choice.one-option",
    "interregnum.no-setter",
    "lame-duck.ending",
    "legitimacy.endorsed",
    "loophole.unmodelled",
    "mandate.granted",
    "mood-of-the-country.read",
    "national-champion.carrier",
    "nudge.drift-steer",
    "ordinary-people.core",
    "paper-tiger.untested",
    "political-party.power",
    "political.governance",
    "power-vacuum.absent-setter",
    "punching-above-our-weight.outsized",
    "responsibility.moral",
    "rising-power.upward",
    "shock-doctrine.exploit",
    "shooting-the-messenger.channel-cut",
    "sick-man-of-europe.others-read",
    "taking-off-the-training-wheels.withdrawn-support",
    "ultra-vires.unauthorized",
    "we-the-people.setter",
    "yes-men.filtered"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "power",
    "powers"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated",
    "date": "2026-09-28",
    "confidence": 0.85,
    "sources": [
      "schema/power-agency-phase.md"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-power.over"
}