{
  "id": "project.plan",
  "term": "project",
  "sense": "plan",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 10,
  "arena": "emerlex",
  "domain": "all",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a purpose that is achieved through an ordered sequence of work",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "goal.purpose",
      "order.arrangement",
      "work.effort",
      "purpose.goal"
    ],
    "interaction": "the purpose defines the aim, the arrangement structures the steps, and the effort carries them out, together realizing the planned outcome",
    "novel_properties": [
      "intended trajectory",
      "structured execution",
      "purposive coordination"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Apollo program landed humans on the Moon between 1969 and 1972 through coordinated engineering and mission control operations.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Human Genome Project mapped all human genes by 2003 using global laboratory collaboration and automated sequencing.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The construction of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai required 22 million man-hours and finished in 2010.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "process.general",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "outcome.result",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "project",
    "projected",
    "projecting",
    "projects"
  ],
  "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": "definition",
      "note": "Added missing 'purpose.goal' to components; adjusted definition slightly for precision while preserving intent. Definition now accurately reflects the components without unnecessary padding."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-project.plan"
}