{
  "id": "premature.early",
  "term": "premature",
  "sense": "early",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 12,
  "arena": "emergence",
  "domain": "window",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "arriving before the parameters supporting the window have finished drifting into place.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "parameter.condition",
      "window.range",
      "drift.aimless",
      "space.extent",
      "support.assistance",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "The parameters that define a viable range for a thing shift over time, and when something appears before those conditions have drifted into proper alignment, it emerges too soon.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "early arrival",
      "precarious timing",
      "unstable onset"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Therac-25 radiation therapy machine delivered lethal overdoses due to race conditions in its software before safety parameters stabilized. [1985–1987]",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "In the 2008 financial crisis, credit default swaps outpaced regulatory frameworks, triggering collapse before oversight could align.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Cambrian explosion began when genetic regulatory networks drifted into configuration, enabling complex life before ecological niches filled.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "premature",
    "prematurely",
    "prematurer",
    "prematurest"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "retrofit:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.8,
    "sources": [
      "Sample/hundred-words-six-terms.md"
    ],
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "windows.opening is not constitutive—definition refers to 'window' in the abstract, not a physical or architectural feature. All other omitted concepts were genuinely required to ground 'supporting' an"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-premature.early"
}