{
  "id": "print.material",
  "term": "print",
  "sense": "material",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 13,
  "arena": "print",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a piece of physical material bearing a repeated pattern created by applying force",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "piece.portion",
      "material.physical",
      "pattern.regularity",
      "press.force",
      "force.push",
      "make.verb",
      "physical.material",
      "portion.share",
      "regularity.pattern",
      "application.use",
      "applying.action",
      "create.production",
      "repeats.action"
    ],
    "interaction": "pressing with force applies a tool to transfer a repeating pattern onto a physical portion, making a new material artifact",
    "novel_properties": [
      "repeating surface design",
      "impressed pattern persistence",
      "artifact of applied pressure"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 1937 Dieppe Series B banknote bears ink patterns pressed into cotton paper by engraved steel rollers.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "A butterfly's wing scales diffract light into iridescent bands through nanoscale ridges formed during pupal development.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 1890s Columbian Exposition guidebook cover showed a repeating floral design stamped in gold leaf using heated brass dies.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "magazine.publication",
    "paper.material"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "print",
    "printed",
    "printing",
    "prints"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "added missing constitutive concepts from definition: application.use, applying.action, create.production, repeats.action"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-print.material"
}