{
  "id": "program.digital",
  "term": "program",
  "sense": "digital",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 18,
  "arena": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a software.digital that make a device do something with information.knowledge",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "software.digital",
      "information.knowledge"
    ],
    "interaction": "software.digital and information.knowledge together make a device do",
    "novel_properties": [
      "execution plan",
      "automation"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Linux kernel, first released in 1991, runs on over 90% of the world's cloud servers.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Hubble Space Telescope's flight software corrected its mirror's spherical aberration in 1993.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Automated Transfer Vehicle used onboard programs to dock with the International Space Station uncrewed.",
      "domain": "spaceflight"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "software.digital",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "program",
    "programmed",
    "programming",
    "programs"
  ],
  "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-program.digital"
}