{
  "id": "precedes.temporal",
  "term": "precedes",
  "sense": "temporal",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 2,
  "arena": "precedes",
  "domain": "temporal",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "something that is before another thing in time",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "time.dimension",
      "difference.relation"
    ],
    "interaction": "time.dimension gives an ordering while difference.relation distinguishes two things, together they make one thing comes before another",
    "novel_properties": [
      "earlier‑ness",
      "temporal precedence",
      "ordering relation"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Big Bang preceded the formation of the Milky Way by about 8.8 billion years.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "The invention of the printing press preceded the widespread literacy in 16th-century Europe.",
      "domain": "history"
    },
    {
      "text": "In a 2020 neural network training run, the initialization of weights preceded the first backpropagation by 0.4 seconds.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "ahead-of-its-time.premature",
    "december.date",
    "november.date",
    "october.month",
    "september.calendar",
    "third.ordinal",
    "wednesday.temporal"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "precede",
    "preceded",
    "precedes",
    "preceding"
  ],
  "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-precedes.temporal"
}