{
  "id": "previous.temporal",
  "term": "previous",
  "sense": "temporal",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 1,
  "arena": "word",
  "domain": "common",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a thing that is before now in time",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "time.dimension",
      "pattern.regularity"
    ],
    "interaction": "the ordering of moments in the time dimension places a thing earlier than the present",
    "novel_properties": [
      "earlier ordering",
      "reference to present"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Voyager 1 probe transmitted data from interstellar space 45 years after its 1977 launch.",
      "domain": "space exploration"
    },
    {
      "text": "The U.S. Constitution remained in force through the Civil War, amendments, and 235 years of societal change.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 4.2-billion-year-old zircon crystal from Jack Hills, Australia, predates most Earth rocks.",
      "domain": "geology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "time.dimension",
      "note": "abstracts",
      "type": "abstracts"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "already.temporal",
    "cycle.loop",
    "days.temporal",
    "december.date",
    "early.temporal",
    "edition.publication",
    "else.other",
    "example.temporal",
    "history.record",
    "issue.problem",
    "late.temporal",
    "memory.cognitive",
    "monday.temporal",
    "october.month",
    "once.temporal",
    "past.temporal",
    "pre.temporal",
    "problem.obstacle",
    "records.document",
    "return.movement",
    "review.assessment",
    "september.calendar",
    "series.ordered",
    "since.temporal",
    "teen.age",
    "updated.temporal"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "previous",
    "previously"
  ],
  "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-previous.temporal"
}